Delta-K,  Teaching Ideas,  Volume 9, Issue 4

MORE THAN Sn: A Class Project for Math Option Students

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 9 Issue 4, June 1970

6 – 7

MORE THAN Sn: A Class Project for Math Option Students

D. W. Annesley

The lesson begins with a short Zecture – for those who are missing this word in their vocabularies, it means to tell students something – about Karl Friedrich Gauss and how he found the sum of the integers from 1 to 100 in just a fraction of the time expected by his teacher.