Active Discrete Mathematics

Welcome!

Students learn mathematics by doing mathematics.

Active Discrete Mathematics textbook cover

The big ideas of discrete mathematics, curated to fit in a single semester. Built accessible to students with varied mathematical backgrounds. Rich with engaging narrative, detailed examples, scaffolded in-class activities, and interesting exercises. That's Active Discrete Mathematics. It's fun. And it works.

Our textbook, Active Discrete Mathematics: Patterns, Structures, and Proof by Suzanne Dorée, is a free and online textbook. It's designed for an active-learning, inquiry-rich course in discrete mathematics where students explore combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, and discrete structures.