Lesson Five — Proof?!

From: www.PlatonicSolids.info

 

 

Prep

• Read the play, Proof?! (see link on site: www.PlatonicSolids.info)
• Decide how much, if any of it, to share with your students.
• Make copies of the play for students.
• If you are feeling particularly ambitious, create props.

 

Procedure

• Ask students to read the play through to themselves.
• Assign parts and read the play as a class.
• Follow with a discussion of Euler’s formula and the play.
• Some other concept you may want to cover are as follows:
  • Proof
  • Logic
  • Truth
  • Thought experiment
  • Definition
  • Undefined terms
  • Conjecture
  • Theorem
  • Lemma
  • Counterexample
  • Deduction
  • Induction
  • Argument
  • Mathematics: invented or discovered?
• Consider giving a writing assignment about some major ideas in the play.