Using history to teach mathematics: an international perspective

by Katz, Victor J.

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Full title :Using history to teach mathematics : an international perspective / Victor J. Katz, editor.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2000.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Mathematical Association of America
Place of Publication:Washington, DC
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2000.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 261 pages : : illustrations ; : 28 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0883851636, 9780883851630
oclc:ocm44652174
LC Classification:QA12
Dewey Decimal:510/.71

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 …

Subjects

History HMP ICME ICMI mathematics Mathematics -- History Mathematics -- Study and teaching Mathematics Education Mathématiques -- Étude et enseignement Mathématiques -- Histoire Onderwijsmethoden pedagogy wiskunde