Using history to teach mathematics : an international perspective /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, DC] :
Mathematical Association of America,
[2000]
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| Series: | MAA notes ;
no. 51. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- General ideas on the use of history in teaching. The ABCD of using history of mathematics in the (undergraduate) classroom / Siu Man-Keung
- Mathematical pedagogy : an historical perspective / Frank Swetz
- On the benefits of introducing undergraduates to the history of mathematics : a French perspective / Anne Michel-Pajus. Historical ideas and their relationship to pedagogy. The history of mathematics and its influence on pedagogical problems / Lucia Grugnetti
- Euclid versus Liu Hui : a pedagogical reflection / Wann-Sheng Horng
- The long tradition of history in mathematics teaching : an old Italian case / Fulvia Furinghetti
- Problem solving from the history of mathematics / Frank Swetz. Teaching a particular subject using history. Second degree equations in the classroom : a Babylonian approach / Luis Radford and George Guérette
- Anomalies and the development of mathematical understanding / Janet Heine Barnett
- The historicity of the notion of what is obvious in geometry / Evelyne Barbin
- Use of history in a research work on the teaching of linear algebra / Jean-Luc Dorier
- Presenting the relation between mathematics and physics on the basis of their history : a genetic approach / Constantinos Tzanakis.
- The use of history in teacher training. A historical approach to developing the cultural significance of mathematics among first year preservice primary school teachers / Ian Isaacs, V. Mohan Ram, and Ann Richards
- The analysis of regula falsi as an instance for professional development of elementary school teachers / Greisy Winicki
- Mathematics and its history : an educational partnership / Maxim Bruckheimer and Abraham Arcavi. The history of mathematics. Mesopotamian mathematics : some historical background / Eleanor Robson
- An excursion in ancient Chinese mathematics / Siu Man-Keung
- The value of mathematics : a medieval Islamic view / George W. Heine, III
- Mathematics, humanism, and urban planning in Renaissance Italy / Uwe Gellert
- An epistemological history of number and variation / Luis E. Moreno-Armella and Guillermina Waldegg
- Combinatorics : a historical and pedagogical approach / Robin Wilson
- The history of non-Euclidean geometry / Torkil Heiede
- Scientific research and teaching problems in Beltrami's letters to Hoüel / Livia Giacardi
- A window on the world of mathematics, 1870 / Gavin Hitchcock
- Some notes on the history of mathematics in Portugal / António Leal Duarte, Jaime Carvalho e Silva and João Filipe Queiró
- Mathematics in South and Central America : an overview / Ubiratan D'Ambrosio.