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Alison Marr
Alison M. Marr (born 1980) is an American mathematician and mathematics educator. Her research concerns graph theory and graph labeling, and she is also an advocate of inquiry-based learning in mathematics. She works as a professor of mathematics and computer science at Southwestern University in Texas. Education and career Marr graduated from Murray State University in 2002, and earned a master's degree in mathematics at Texas A&M University in 2004. She completed her Ph.D. in 2007 at Southern Illinois University; her dissertation, ''Labelings of Directed Graphs'', was supervised by Walter D. Wallis. She has been a member of the mathematics faculty at Southwestern University since 2007. She was department chair for 2015–2018. Beyond mathematics, her teaching at Southwestern has included a freshman seminar on television game shows. Contributions Inquiry-based learning Marr is an advocate of inquiry-based learning in mathematics, a style of teaching through student resea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematics Education
In contemporary education, mathematics education, known in Europe as the didactics or pedagogy of mathematics – is the practice of teaching, learning and carrying out scholarly research into the transfer of mathematical knowledge. Although research into mathematics education is primarily concerned with the tools, methods and approaches that facilitate practice or the study of practice, it also covers an extensive field of study encompassing a variety of different concepts, theories and methods. National and international organisations regularly hold conferences and publish literature in order to improve mathematics education. History Ancient Elementary mathematics were a core part of education in many ancient civilisations, including ancient Egypt, ancient Babylonia, ancient Greece, ancient Rome and Vedic India. In most cases, formal education was only available to male children with sufficiently high status, wealth or caste. The oldest known mathematics textbook is the Rh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic Graph
A magic graph is a graph whose edges are labelled by the first ''q'' positive integers, where ''q'' is the number of edges, so that the sum over the edges incident with any vertex is the same, independent of the choice of vertex; or it is a graph that has such a labelling. The name "magic" sometimes means that the integers are any positive integers; then the graph and the labelling using the first ''q'' positive integers are called supermagic. A graph is vertex-magic if its vertices can be labelled so that the sum on any edge is the same. It is total magic if its edges and vertices can be labelled so that the vertex label plus the sum of labels on edges incident with that vertex is a constant. There are a great many variations on the concept of magic labelling of a graph. There is much variation in terminology as well. The definitions here are perhaps the most common. Comprehensive references for magic labellings and magic graphs are Gallian (1998), Wallis (2001), and Marr and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
