This dissertation examines the complex story of Korah’s rebellion found in Numbers 16 and 17 utilizing narrative critical theory. This study is first grounded in the context of historical questions surrounding Israel’s emergence as a nation and the narrative’s potential for historical veracity. Many narrative critics do not feel the theoretical necessity to establish the connection between an autonomous text and a historical context. This study does seek to collaborate with historical research, but only as permitted by the data. Though only biblical and tangential evidence supports the historicity of the wilderness sojourn, the narrative accounts should not be repudiated because of philosophical bias or the lack of corroborative extra biblical evidence. Especially important to a literary interpretation of this narrative is the work of source critics who during their own enquiries have identified the fractures and transitions within the story. In considering the text of Numbers 16 and 17, the hermeneutical approach employed in this study carefully endorses a balanced incorporation of the theoretical constructs of the author, text, and reader in the interpretive enquiry. From this hermeneutical approach recent literary theory is applied to the texts of Numbers 16 and 17 focusing particular attention on three narrative themes. First, the narrator’s point of view is examined to determine the manner that information is relayed to the reader so as to demur the rebellion leaders. Though features of characterization are often meager in biblical narratives, there remains sufficient data in this rebellion story to support the aims of the Hebrew writers and does not undermine the reader’s engagement with the story’s participants. Finally, the three separate plotlines in this narrative sustain the dramatic effect upon the readership holding attention and judgment throughout and beyond the story. In sum, this dissertation highlights the powerful contours of this ancient narrative by appropriating the theoretical work of narrative critics. The strategies employed in the writing and editing of this story uniquely condemn the rebels and at the same time serve to elevate God’s chosen leader Moses. / Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies / D. Th. (Old Testament)

Esta dissertação apresenta uma experiência de aplicação de sequência de atividades cujo tema central é números relativos, envolvendo uso de jogos. Tal sequência foi aplicada em uma turma do sétimo ano de uma escola particular da cidade de Porto Alegre. A construção da sequência apoiou-se em literatura que afirma que jogos podem propiciar contextos que façam mais sentido aos alunos do que as situações ditas do cotidiano, comumente retratadas em livros didáticos. Buscou-se, por meio dos jogos, constituir contextos que provocassem a necessidade da representação de números de sentidos opostos e das operações com esses números, incluindo situações complexas como a do efeito resultante da retirada de um número negativo. Foram coletados registros da produção dos alunos e das discussões em sala de aula por meio de gravação em áudio, fotografias de cadernos e do quadro-negro, e questionários preenchidos pelos alunos após cada atividade. A análise desses materiais permitiu concluir que os jogos representaram uma sustentação para o pensamento lógico e operatório dos alunos, na construção dos esquemas mobilizados para somar e subtrair números positivos e negativos. / This work presents an experiment of an activity sequence centered on Relative Numbers and involving the use of games. Such sequence was applied in a seventh grade class of a Porto Alegre’s private school. The conception of the sequence was supported by literature that affirms that games can provide contexts that make more sense to the students than the so-called “daily situations” frequently presented in didactic books. It was sought, by the games, to constitute contexts that provoked the need for representation of numbers with opposite signs and the operations with those numbers, including more complex cases, like the result of subtracting a negative number. The data collected includes audio recordings of students’ production and discussions, notebooks and blackboard’s photographs, and questionnaires filled by students after each activity. The analysis of this data allowed me to conclude that games could support the logical and operational thinking of the students in the construction of mobilized schemes to add and subtract positive and negative numbers.

Submitted by ANA KARLA PEREIRA RODRIGUES (anakarla_@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-29T16:07:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 945033 bytes, checksum: cab32f76c5a55b0c6400063ed6b40ff6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Fernando Souza (fernandoafsou@gmail.com) on 2017-08-29T16:11:36Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 945033 bytes, checksum: cab32f76c5a55b0c6400063ed6b40ff6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-29T16:11:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 945033 bytes, checksum: cab32f76c5a55b0c6400063ed6b40ff6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-25 / We introduce and de ne the p-adics integer numbers as a result of a search for solutions, for a congruences system that derives from a variable polynomial equation with rational coe cients. We evidence that the p-adic integers set is strictly larger than the integers. We present a criterion so that a rational that holds a correspondent in a p-adic integers set. We search for the possibility to represent irrational and complex numbers as p-adics integers. Algebraically, the p-adic integers set will be an integral domain and, from this, we search for the construction of p-adic integers quotient eld so that shall form the p-adic rationals eld, from a purely algebraically point of view. In the second part, we will expose the bases for the construction of a norm that's di erent from the usual, establishing so a new metric in the rational numbers set and the construction of a non-archimedian eld. / Apresentamos e de nimos os números inteiros p-ádicos como o resultado de uma busca por soluções, para um sistema de congruências, que parte de uma equação polinomial de uma variável, com coe cientes racionais. Constatamos que o conjunto dos inteiros p-ádicos é estritamente maior que os inteiros. Mostramos um critério para que um racional possua um correspondente num conjunto de inteiros p-ádicos. Buscamos a possibilidade de representarmos números irracionais e números complexos como inteiros p-ádicos. Algebricamente, o conjunto dos inteiros p-ádicos será um domínio de integridade e, partindo disto, buscamos a construção de um corpo de frações dos inteiros p-ádicos, que formarão, assim, o corpo dos racionais p-ádicos, de um ponto de vista puramente algébrico. Na segunda parte, vamos expor os fundamentos para a construção de uma norma diferente da habitual, estabelecendo assim uma nova métrica, no conjunto dos números racionais, e a construção de um corpo não-arquimediano.

Submitted by ANA KARLA PEREIRA RODRIGUES (anakarla_@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-30T13:15:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 799210 bytes, checksum: 8de2ace5434a5d92b8604de7573abfc4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by ANA KARLA PEREIRA RODRIGUES (anakarla_@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-30T13:17:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 799210 bytes, checksum: 8de2ace5434a5d92b8604de7573abfc4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-30T13:17:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 799210 bytes, checksum: 8de2ace5434a5d92b8604de7573abfc4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The study of ontinued fra tions will start with some histori al fa ts, aiming at a better understanding of the subje t. We will bring the de nition of ontinued fra tions for a number α real, with the de nition for α rational and α irrational. The dis ussion will fo us on meaning results for the al ulation of redu ed and good approximations of irrational numbers, also aimed at determining the error between the redu ed and the irrational number. We will bring a study of the periodi ontinued fra tions, with emphasis on Lagrange theorem, whi h relates a periodi ontinued fra tion and a quadrati equation. Finishing with a fo us on problem solving, as the al ulation of ontinued fra tions of irrational numbers of the form √a2 + b, as well as proof of the irrationality of e by al ulating its ontinued. / O estudo das frações ontínuas terá ini io om alguns fatos históri os, visando uma melhor ompreensão do tema. Traremos a de nição de frações ontínuas para um erto número α real, apresentando a de nição para α ra ional e para α irra ional. A dis ussão será entrada em resultados importantes para o ál ulo de reduzidas e boas aproximações de números irra ionais, visando também a determinação do erro entre a reduzida e o número irra ional. Traremos um estudo sobre as frações ontínuas periódi as, om enfase ao teorema de Langrange, que rela iona uma fração ontínua periódi a e uma equação do segundo grau. Finalizando om enfoque na resolução de problemas, omo o ál ulo de frações ontínuas de números irra ionais da forma √a2 + b, assim omo a prova da irra ionalidade de e através do ál ulo de sua fração ontínua.

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In this work, we investigated the construction of natural, integer, rational, real, complex, quaternion and Octonion numbers. More precisely, the set of real numbers was achieved by applying two methods: Dedekind Cuts and Equivalence Classes of Cauchy Sequences. Our study is only based on using Peano Axioms, which are directly related to the natural numbers, in order to get the basic properties satis ed by these numbers. In addition, we carefully proved the elementary results involving real numbers. This process in question was developed constructively throughout of the concepts of the integer and rational numbers. Next, we show that it is possible to establish the existence of complex numbers along with their more usual arithmetic properties. Finally, we nish each chapter of our work showing some possible applications in each set worked. / No presente trabalhos, investigamos, cuidadosamente, a construção do números Naturais, inteiros, Racionais, Reais e Complexos. Sendo que, o conjunto dos números reais foi obtido através dos conhecidos métodos: Cortes de Dedekind e Classes de Equivalência por sequência de Cauchy. O estudo consistiu em utilizar os famosos Axiomas de Peano, ps quais estão relacionados aos números naturais, em ordem a obter as em conhecidas propriedades elementares, satisfeitas para todos esses números. E, a partir deste conhecimento, encontramos rigorosamente as provas dos resultados básicos envolvendo os números reais. Este processo em questão, foi desenvolvida de maneira construtiva através dos números inteiros e racionais. Em seguida, mostramos que é possível estabelecer a existência de números complexos, juntamente com suas propriedades aritméticas mais usuais. Por fim, terminamos cada capítulo do nosso trabalho, mostrando algumas possíveis aplicações em cada conjunto trabalhado.

Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1975 / Bibliography: leaves 86-87. / by Peter F. Hollings and George Raff. / M.S. / M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management

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Rational Catalan combinatorics connects various Catalan numbers to the representation theory of rational Cherednik algebras for Coxeter and complex reflection groups. Lewis, Reiner, and Stanton seek a theory of rational Catalan combinatorics for the general linear group over a finite field. The finite general linear group is a modular reflection group that behaves like a finite Coxeter group. They conjecture a Hilbert series for a space of invariants under the action of this group using (q,t)-binomial coefficients. They consider the finite general linear group acting on the quotient of a polynomial ring by iterated powers of the irrelevant ideal under the Frobenius map. Often conjectures about reflection groups are solved by considering the local case of a group fixing one hyperplane and then extending via the theory of hyperplane arrangements to the full group. The Lewis, Reiner and Stanton conjecture had not previously been formulated for groups fixing a hyperplane. We formulate and prove their conjecture in this local case.

The aim of this thesis is to deal with teaching of negative numbers in mathematics in lower primary school. The thesis brings an overview of exercises related to negative numbers, which are available in textbooks dedicated to lower and upper primary school. Main part of the thesis is devoted to three different experiments - pupils experiment, teaching experiment and parlour game. The pupils experiment analysis the successes and troubles of pupils attending 4th and 5th class when filling out the worksheets focused on various models of negative numbers. Furthermore, the teaching experiment based on a questionnaire survey describes comments of lower and upper primary school teachers in regards to implementation and usefulness of negative numbers. Parlour game experiment demonstrates the ability of pupils to grasp mathematical phenomenon by playing a game. Key words: ­ additive operations with negative numbers ­ experiment ­ models of negative number: thermometer, floor, surface ­ environment Stepping ­ environment Stairs ­ word problems ­ board game ­ negative numbers