# Teaching Mathematics--Graph Theory

DevFeed: [Teaching Mathematics--Graph Theory](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/teaching-mathematics-graph-theory-40212.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.jeremykun.com/2011/06/26/teaching-mathematics-graph-theory/>)

Published: 2011-06-26T16:19:20Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Jeremy Kun](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jeremy-kun.md>)

Topics: [graph theory](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graph-theory.md>), [Graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphs.md>), [Mathematics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mathematics.md>)

Tags: [campolindo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/campolindo.md>), [education](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/education.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [graph-theory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graph-theory.md>), [introspection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/introspection.md>), [mathematics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mathematics.md>), [methods-of-proof](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/methods-of-proof.md>), [primer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/primer.md>), [puzzles](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/puzzles.md>), [seven-bridges](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/seven-bridges.md>), [seven-hills](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/seven-hills.md>), [teaching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teaching.md>)

## AI overview

A mathematics teacher describes using puzzles and student-led discovery to introduce graph theory in high-school and middle-school lectures. The article presents the Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem as a central example and discusses mathematics as a non-linear process of questions, conjectures, and proof.

## Source excerpt

Community Service Mathematics is supposed to be a process of discovery. Definitions, propositions, and methods of proof don't come from nowhere, although after the fact (when presented in a textbook) they often seem to. As opposed to a textbook, real maths is highly non-linear. It took mathematicians quite a lot of fuss to come up with the quadratic formula, and even simple geometric conjectures were for the longest time the subject of hot debate.