Kieran Lim
Address: School of Life and Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
Deakin University
Burwood
Victoria 3125
Australia
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
Deakin University
Burwood
Victoria 3125
Australia
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The basic idea of the book is that the best way of learning Mathematics is to develop metacognitive and metalearning skills. Students should develop an approach to learning, to reflect on the process of learning and problem solving, and thus know when and how to particular strategies in learning and problem solving. For example, Chapter Three (Thinking Visually) shows how diagrams can be used to better understand the qualitative behaviour of complicated equations and to visualise which data are significant.
The use of fossil fuel has also lead to global warming through an enhancement of the greenhouse effect. The (international) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has indicated that:
• the 1990s was the warmest decade in the instrumental record since 1861;
• 1998 was the warmest year in the instrumental record since 1861; and
• globally averaged surface temperature is projected to increase by 1.4-5.8°C and sea levels to rise by 0.09 0.88 metres from 1990 to 2100.
This is due primarily to the build up of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the earth’s atmosphere. According to the 1999 Victorian Greenhouse Gas Inventory (VGGI), CO2 contributed around 80% of Victoria’s total net greenhouse gas emissions (112.8 megatonnes of CO2 equivalent). It is the greenhouse and the atmospheric pollution problems that are the real motivations towards greener, cleaner technologies.
The basic idea of the book is that the best way of learning Mathematics is to develop metacognitive and metalearning skills. Students should develop an approach to learning, to reflect on the process of learning and problem solving, and thus know when and how to particular strategies in learning and problem solving. For example, Chapter Three (Thinking Visually) shows how diagrams can be used to better understand the qualitative behaviour of complicated equations and to visualise which data are significant.
The use of fossil fuel has also lead to global warming through an enhancement of the greenhouse effect. The (international) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has indicated that:
• the 1990s was the warmest decade in the instrumental record since 1861;
• 1998 was the warmest year in the instrumental record since 1861; and
• globally averaged surface temperature is projected to increase by 1.4-5.8°C and sea levels to rise by 0.09 0.88 metres from 1990 to 2100.
This is due primarily to the build up of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the earth’s atmosphere. According to the 1999 Victorian Greenhouse Gas Inventory (VGGI), CO2 contributed around 80% of Victoria’s total net greenhouse gas emissions (112.8 megatonnes of CO2 equivalent). It is the greenhouse and the atmospheric pollution problems that are the real motivations towards greener, cleaner technologies.