PART I A Guide to the Paradigmatical Cases (Episodes) Presented in this Chapter

The following table contains contextual information with regard to the 8 Episodes presented in this Chapter.

Episode Number

Time of Incident

Term - Week

Participants

Mathematical Content

1

Hilary 5

Connie

GRF5.1, order of a group and order of an element, cyclic groups, Lagrange's Theorem

2

Hilary 6

Camille

equivalence classes, cosets

3

Hilary 6

Jack and Andrew

GRF5.6, order of a group and order of an element, cyclic groups, Lagrange's Theorem

4

Hilary 6

Connie

centralisers, conjugates of an element in a group

5

Hilary 6

Jack and Andrew

GRF5.8d, order of a group and order of an element, subgroups, Lagrange's Theorem

6

Hilary 7

four pairs of students in one college

First Isomorphism Theorem for Groups

7

Hilary 7

Connie

GRF7.3, normal subgroups, cosets, Lagrange's Theorem

8

Hilary 8

Cathy and Cliff

GRF8.5, order of an element in a group

 

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