Abstract

We take G. K. Chesterton’s short story, The three horsemen of apocalypse, as a motivating introduction to the study of linear equations systems, as well as a review of the concept of linear function in a grade 10 class. This approach links literature and history with mathematics and it proved to be an interesting one to middle school students in the Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades (Sciences and Humanities College), in Mexico, City. We used the TI-92 Graphic Calculator as an auxiliary tool. We presented this same proposal as a workshop for teachers in the 1999 T³ International Conference in Chicago, Ill.

¨1999. ATCM, Inc