Computer Programming for the Mathematics Laboratory

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One type of worthwhile activity for a mathematics laboratory is the use of a computer facility to solve problems or even do some elementary “research.” To do this the student needs to know a simple computer language like BASIC and needs to have computer facilities available for running programs. This use of a computer is illustrated by a seventh-grade class studying prime numbers. They wanted to write programs that would result in the computer's printing out all prime numbers between 1 and 100. Since there was no set program to follow, each student or group of students wrote his own. The result was several different programs, some of which worked and Others that did not work. In the process of writing programs, executing and debugging them, and studying program output, the students learned a great deal of mathematics about prime numbers.

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