Teaching and Learning Discrete Mathematics Worldwide: Curriculum and Research

Chapter 1 Discrete Mathematics Is Essential Mathematics in a 21st Century School Curriculum

Chapter 2 The Absence of Discrete Mathematics in Primary and Secondary Education in the United States… and Why that Is Counterproductive

Chapter 3 Discrete Mathematics in Lower School Grades? Situation and Possibilities in Italy

Chapter 4 Discrete Mathematics and the Affective Dimension of Mathematical Learning and Engagement

Chapter 5 Combinatorial Reasoning to Solve Problems

Chapter 6 Children’s Combinatorial Counting Strategies and their Relationship to Conventional Mathematical Counting Principles

Chapter 7 Reinforcing Mathematical Concepts and Developing Mathematical Practices Through Combinatorial Activity

Chapter 8 Complex Mathematics Education in the 21st Century: Improving Combinatorial Thinking Based on Tamás Varga’s Heritage and Recent Research Results

Chapter 9 Discrete Dynamical Systems: A Pathway for Students to Become Enchanted with Mathematics

Chapter 10 How Recursion Supports Algebraic Understanding

Chapter 11 Food Webs, Competition Graphs, and a 60-Year Old Unsolved Problem

Chapter 12 Graph Theory in Primary, Middle, and High School

Chapter 13 Fairness

Chapter 14 Mathematical Research in the Classroom via Combinatorial Games

Chapter 15 Machines Designed to Play Nim Games (1940–1970): A Possible (Re)Use in the Modern French Mathematics Curriculum?

Chapter 16 Mathematics and Logic: Their Relationship in the Teaching of Mathematics