Mathematics of choice: How to count without counting Ivan Morton Niven
Publisher: Mathematical Assn of America

In the Unites States and many other countries, the choice was made - perhaps unreflectively - long ago to take our facility for counting as the starting point, and thus to start the mathematical journey with the natural numbers. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both, And be one traveler, long I stood, And looked down one as far as I could, To where it bent in the undergrowth; . I would use this kit everyday when we do math. I love all the different choices. This odd scenario is really, really, really unlikely — but not, quite, impossible, as physicist Ludwig Boltzmann realised in the nineteenth century. I definitely plan on starting a counting collection in my class. The Lunch Counter can count the choices and take the results to the cafeteria manager. Of course, it's an exaggeration of the model but it makes the point crystal clear. Word problems, skip counting, graphing. Math by Starting with Counting? Why should I Why do the students record their counts? The eliminated candidate's first place votes are removed, with the second choice of the voters for the eliminated candidate "counting" in the next round. The body is not a math equation, it's a complex biological system. Although counting is one of the best ways to help children develop number sense and other important mathematical ideas, we do not do enough of it in elementary schools. Jodi Chandler, 1st grade, Deer Creek Elementary. Why not simply count all the 2nd votes from all candidates? I'm not saying that a program like Total Body Reboot is easy — it certainly has its challenges — but instead of having a 90% failure rate it has a 90% success rate. And that system is regulated by hormones that interact with The choice is yours. Boltzmann's farout idea is now causing cosmologists fits, If they calculate the chance that the cosmological constant will taken on any particular value in a randomly chosen universe, then the value of our cosmological constant will probably be one of the popular choices.