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Let history into the mathematics classroom / Évelyne Barbin, Jean-Paul Guichard, Marc Moyon, Patrick Guyot, Catherine Morice-Singh, Frédéric Métin, Martine Bühler, Dominique Tournés, Renaud Chorlay, Gérard Hamon.

Barbin, E. (Evelyne), author.; Guichard, Jean-Paul, author.; Moyon, Marc, 1976- author.; Guyot, Patrick, author.; Morice-Singh, Catherine, author.; Métin, Frédéric, author.; Bühler, Martine, author.; Tournès, Dominique, 1957- author.; Chorlay, Renaud, author.; Hamon, Gérard, author.
2018
QA11.2
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Let history into the mathematics classroom / Évelyne Barbin, Jean-Paul Guichard, Marc Moyon, Patrick Guyot, Catherine Morice-Singh, Frédéric Métin, Martine Bühler, Dominique Tournés, Renaud Chorlay, Gérard Hamon.
Author
Barbin, E. (Evelyne), author.
ISBN
9783319571508 (electronic bk.)
3319571508 (electronic bk.)
9783319571492
3319571494
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57150-8
Published
Cham : Springer, 2018.
Language
English
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1 online resource.
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10.1007/978-3-319-57150-8 doi
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QA11.2
Dewey Decimal Classification
510.71
Summary
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, Indian, Chinese and Arabic mathematics as well as to contemporary mathematics. Students are introduced to well-known mathematicians--such as Gottfried Leibniz and Leonard Euler--as well as to less famous practitioners and engineers. Always, there is the attempt to associate the experiments with their scientific and cultural contexts. One of the main values of history is to show that the notions and concepts we teach were invented to solve problems. The different chapters of this collection all have, as their starting points, historic problems--mathematical or not. These are problems of exchanging and sharing, of dividing figures and volumes as well as engineers' problems, calculations, equations and congruence. The mathematical reasoning which accompanies these actions is illustrated by the use of drawings, folding, graphical constructions and the production of machines.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 1, 2017).
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Guichard, Jean-Paul, author.
Moyon, Marc, 1976- author.
Guyot, Patrick, author.
Morice-Singh, Catherine, author.
Métin, Frédéric, author.
Bühler, Martine, author.
Tournès, Dominique, 1957- author.
Chorlay, Renaud, author.
Hamon, Gérard, author.
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History of mathematics education.
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