FEATURED COURSE:
CHRISTIAN THINKING IN MATHEMATICS
TEACHER: Dr. Bartlett
MODE: 16 one hour lectures / discussions, 16 reading assignments, quizzes, two small hands-on experiments or projects. Runs with one or more students.
REQUIRED STUDENT RESOURCE:
James D. Nickel, Mathematics: Is God Silent? (Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 2001). $22 + tax, shipping, and handling. Call 701-263-4574.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Christian mathematics is a course designed to change how students think about all of mathematics. Just as reading, writing, and arithmetic permeate and influence a person’s life and every field of endeavor, so the impact of distinctly Christian mathematical thought has the potential to transform the student into the image of Christ for a greater influence in the Christian family, church, and society. The Christian math student is encouraged to discover and use God’s logic, attributes, power, nature, and glory (Romans 1:20 ; Psalm 111:10), while keeping logic and science subservient to revelation (Romans 5:18-19; Romans 7:17-21; Romans 8:20).
Christian mathematics demonstrates the truth that every idea has an opposite (e.g., addition /subtraction, right/wrong) which has parallel ideas in theology (e.g., narrow way /broad way, righteousness /wickedness), which can declare the glory and attributes of God (Romans 1:20 ). Absolute truth and many other important philosophical concepts are further seen when one recognizes that mathematics reveals God’s nature through His creation, where disconnected secular math is often the cause for the dislike and even fear of math.
Practical mathematical insights into creation are presented and discussed along with the power of mathematics to take dominion in every profession, from home making to rocket science.
NUMBER OF CREDITS: One credit as described. A two credit version of this course is available for an additional $50 which requires oral presentations and written articles from each student.
DUAL CREDIT: High school students can take this course as part of their college curriculum. Parents can take this course too!
Quote to ponder: "By the deliberate omission of creation and philosophical contexts, most mathematics teaching today denies the reality of the Creator God, where the wonder of creation and cultural implications reveal the fact that real life mathematics is not boring but exciting."
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Does It Really Matter?
II. From Adam to Christ.
III. From Christ to Wycliffe.
IV. From Wycliffe to Euler.
V. From Euler to Godel.
VI. Why Does Mathematics Work?
VII. Objectives.
VIII. Pedagogy and Resources.
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