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Sofya Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya

Theme: Strategies for deducing reasonable conclusions from a mathematical model.

Competencies

Mathematical competence in science, technology and engineering

Personal, social and learning to learn competence

Competence in cultural awareness and expressions

Subjects and year by Educational System

Spain > Mathematics > 4th(A) ESO > Algebraic sense

Spain > Mathematics > 4th(A) ESO > Socio-affective sense

Enunciation

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Sofya Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya, a Russian mathematician of Jewish origin of the 20th century &nbsp;specialist in logic, posed different problems to her students so that they would solve them with perseverance and so that they would continually ask themselves: what am I doing? where am I going? We propose you to solve the following mathematical logic problem.
The zookeeper commented the other day:
- 17 bears eat as much as 170 chimpanzees.&nbsp;
- 100,000 mice eat as much as 50 chimpanzees.&nbsp;
- 4 elephants eat as much as 10 bears.&nbsp;
How many mice would eat as much as 12 elephants?

Observations and context

- As a revolutionary, she took an active part in politics with the communist party during the Russian Revolution, first underground and then as the editor of the Kommunist newspaper in Odessa.

- Sofya's predecessors, who also stood out in the field of mathematical logic, are Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684); Ada Lovelace, forerunner of computer language (1815-1852); and Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847-1930).

- Her contemporaries were also renowned scientists such as Priscilla Fairfield Bok (1896-1975), American astronomer; Mary Lea Heger (1897-1983), American astronomer; Gertrude Blanch (1897-1996), American mathematician; Mary Taylor Slow (1898-1984), British physicist and mathematician; Marguerite Lehr (1898-1987), American mathematician; Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898-1990), American astronomer; Odette Jasse (1899-1949), French astronomer; Vera Fedorovna Gaze (1899-1954), Soviet astronomer; Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899-1999), Soviet mathematician; Gertrude Mary Cox (1900-1978), American mathematician and statistician; Ida Rhodes (1900-1986), American mathematician; or Mary Lucy Cartwright (1900-1998), British mathematician, among many others born in the early 20th century.

- Important researchers such as Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova (1921-2005) and Olga Arsenievna Oleinik (1925-2001) stand out among her students.

Description

Solving a problem. To do this you have to use logic and operations with natural numbers.

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