Arithmetic

Our practical context -we teach gifted fifth grade students in an International School- has greatly influenced this research. Indeed, the International Primary Years Programme (International Baccalaureate Organization, 2007) fosters transdisciplinary themes, including one intitl…

Al-Kashi's 1427 Key to Arithmetic had important use over several hundred years in mathematics teaching in Medieval Islam throughout the time of the Ottoman Empire. Its pedagogical features have never been studied before. In this dissertation I have made a close pedagogical analy…