Assignment: Writing Assignment 1

Finlandia MAT 144 F15
2015-07-16T17:27:37Z

Due: Aug 31, 2015 by 9:59pm

Write a newspaper article, picking one of the following topics:

Possible number sense in the animal world

Linguistic evidence of the use at some time of bases other than ten

Advantages and disadvantages of bases other than ten

The history of writing materials

Finger numbers and finger arithmetic

Arithmetic on an abacus

The ancient quipu

Mayan arithmetic

Tally sticks

The Babylonian zero

Three for plural

Number taboos

The Kensington stone mystery

Some origins of our numeral symbols

Contests between the abacus and an electronic desk calculator

Grading with be done with the attached writing rubric.

This assignment requires research - the library is a helpful source, as is the internet and my book collection in my office.

This link from the library will be very helpful - http://www.finlandia.edu/research-guides-and-tutorials.html

Newspaper articles typically answer who, what, where, when, why, how. Include a headline, byline (telling who wrote the article), and picture relevant to the article. Citations can be done via footnotes, either giving a link to a webpage or the title and author of anything not online.

I've made up a template to help you arrange it. You may edit the template any way you want.

Submit via an electronic document.

Write a newspaper article, picking one of the following topics:

Possible number sense in the animal world

Linguistic evidence of the use at some time of bases other than ten

Advantages and disadvantages of bases other than ten

The history of writing materials

Finger numbers and finger arithmetic

Arithmetic on an abacus

The ancient quipu

Mayan arithmetic

Tally sticks

The Babylonian zero

Three for plural

Number taboos

The Kensington stone mystery

Some origins of our numeral symbols

Contests between the abacus and an electronic desk calculator

Grading with be done with the attached writing rubric.

This assignment requires research - the library is a helpful source, as is the internet and my book collection in my office.

This link from the library will be very helpful - http://www.finlandia.edu/research-guides-and-tutorials.html

Newspaper articles typically answer who, what, where, when, why, how. Include a headline, byline (telling who wrote the article), and picture relevant to the article. Citations can be done via footnotes, either giving a link to a webpage or the title and author of anything not online.

I've made up a template to help you arrange it. You may edit the template any way you want.

Submit via an electronic document.