With the help of tried and tested, carefully elaborated learning units, the authors convey fundamental mathematical techniques in this essential, which are important far beyond primary school. In the present volume I, path problems and word puzzles are modeled and solved using undirected and directed graphs. Simple math games are systematically analyzed and the optimal strategies are determined. Students learn to gradually reduce difficult problems to simpler ones and to provide evidence in different contexts. The tasks encourage mathematical thinking, imagination and creativity. The detailed sample solutions are designed for non-mathematicians. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Mathematische Geschichten I Graphen, Spiele und Beweise by Susanne Schindler-Tschirner and Werner Schindler, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

Targeted support for gifted students in the subject of mathematics at primary school Learning units in stories with detailed sample solutions Model solutions designed for non-mathematicians

Autorentext
Susanne Schindler-Tschirner is a philologist and was project manager in a science publishing house after her teacher training. She is active in student support and author of didactics-oriented publications. Werner Schindler has a doctorate in mathematics. He is head of department at the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and adjunct professor at the Department of Mathematics at TU Darmstadt.

Inhalt
Mathematical Techniques and Exercises.- Detailed sample solutions.