Understanding logarithms

Eric Wood

doi:10.1016/B0-12-386860-2/00208-2

Understanding logarithms

Eric Wood

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A variety of applications of logarithms are presented along with suggestions about how this topic might be made more interesting and relevant in a secondary classroom. In most cases, the treatment is multi-modal using numerical, graphical and algebraic approaches.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Teaching Mathematics and its Applications
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	167-178
Number of pages	12
Volume	24
Edition	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B0-12-386860-2/00208-2
State	Published - Dec 2005

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General Mathematics
Education

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