Annual – 1970 – Active Learning in Mathematics
Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association
79 – 90
An Inventing Unit on Area for Grade VII
Sol. E. Sigurdson
In another article in this issue, the author talks about a “discovery unit” dealing with senior high school mathematics content. I chose to use “Inventing Unit” in the title of this article because, since writing the previous article, I have come to the conclusion that mathematics, in the true sense, is not “discovered”, rather it is “invented”. Scientific laws are discovered because these laws are inherent in the nature of things.