Preface How to use this book
The author began writing this textbook during a 2023-2024 sabbatical. Updates and additions will be deployed to
https://tjmagnus.github.io/polyomino/. Suggestions on how to improve this textbook are appreciated.
An Instructor’s Version is available to faculty upon request. Email the author at tmagnus@rivier.edu with your name, contact information, and the link to a webpage verifying your role as instructor.
Exploration activities.
Explorations are an essential part of this course. Students, often in groups, make sense of the mathematics and take ownership of the content by discovering relationships through hands-on activities. I am happy to share the classroom worksheets on which this course is based. In fact, I plan to continue to use handouts for most of the in-class explorations even after this textbook is complete. I plan to add many of these to an instructor-accessible website. Instructors wanting to use these sooner should email me!
Interactive Online Version.
For those of you reading this in a PDF or in print, I encourage you to also check out the interactive online version, which makes navigating the book a little easier. Additionally, many of the activities are implemented as GeoGebra or Polypad applets, which allow you to work interactively inside the textbook. Some exercises can be checked inside the online textbook and hyperlinks to definitions and other items are included.
You can view the interactive HTML version for free at
https://tjmagnus.github.io/polyomino/ or by scanning the QR code below with your smart phone.
