Let History into the Mathematics Classroom

This book brings together 10 experiments which introduce historical perspectives into mathematics classrooms for 11 to 18-year-olds. The authors suggest that students should not only read ancient texts, but also should construct, draw and manipulate. The different chapters refer to ancient Greek, In...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Barbin, Évelyne. autor (autor), Guichard, Jean-Paul, autor, Moyon, Marc, autor, Guyot, Patrick, autor, Morice-Singh, Catherine, autor, Métin, Frédéric, autor, Bühler, Martine, autor, Tournès, Dominique, autor, Chorlay, Renaud, autor, Hamon, Gérard, autor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer 2018.
Colección:History of Mathematics Education,
Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Angles in Secondary School: Surveying and Navigation
  • Dividing a Triangle in the Middle Ages: An Example From the Latin Works on Practical Geometry
  • A Square in a Triangle
  • Indian Calculation: The Rule of Three--Quite a Story
  • The Arithmetic of Juan de Ortega: Equations without Algebra
  • The Congruence Machine of the Carissan Brothers
  • A Graphical Approach to Euler's Method
  • Calculating with Hyperbolas and Parabolas
  • When Leibniz Plays Dice
  • The Probability of Causes According to Condorcet.