| Description |
xii, 261 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Series |
MAA notes ; no. 51
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
General ideas on the use of history in teaching. 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. History of mathematics and its influence on pedagogical problems / Lucia Grugnetti -- Euclid versus Liu Hui : a pedagogical reflection / Wann-Sheng Horng -- 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, George Guerette -- Anomalies and the development of mathematical understanding / Janet Heine Barnett -- 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. |
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Use of history in teacher training. Historical approach to developing the cultural significance of mathematics among first year preservice primary school teachers / Ian Isaacs, V. Mohan Ram, Ann Richards -- 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, Abraham Arcavi. History of mathematics. Mesopotamian mathematics : some historical background / Eleanor Robson -- Excursion in ancient Chinese mathematics / Siu Man-Keung -- Value of mathematics : a medieval Islamic view / George W. Heine, III -- Mathematics, humanism, and urban planning in Renaissance Italy / Uwe Gellert -- Epistemological history of number and variation / Luis E. Moreno-Armella, Guillermina Waldegg -- Combinatorics : a historical and pedagogical approach / Robin Wilson -- History of non-Euclidean geometry / Torkil Heiede -- Scientific research and teaching problems in Beltrami's letters to Houel / Livia Giacardi -- Window on the world of mathematics, 1870 / Gavin Hitchcock -- Some notes on the history of mathematics in Portugal / Antonio Leal Duarte, Jaime Carvalho e Silva, Jo~ao Filipe Queiro -- Mathematics in South and Central America : an overview / Ubiratan D'Ambrosio. |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
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Mathematics -- History.
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| Added Author |
Katz, Victor J.
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| ISBN |
0883851636 |
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