Abraham Lincoln’s Cyphering Book and Ten other Extraordinary Cyphering Books

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Ellerton, Nerida F. (Συγγραφέας), Clements, M. A. (Ken) (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Mathematics Education.; Sociology of Education.

This well-illustrated book provides strong qualitative and comparative support for the main arguments developed by Nerida Ellerton and Ken Clements in their groundbreaking Rewriting this History of School Mathematics in North America 1607–1861: The Central Role of Cyphering Books. Eleven extraordina...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1.Cyphering Books and the Cyphering Tradition in North America and Great Britain, 1630–18
• 2.Primitive Beginnings, Circa 1667
• 3.“Thomas Prust His Booke Amen 1702”
• 4.Daughters of the Revolution: Martha and Elisabeth Ryan’s Cyphering Book, Circa 1780
• 5.With a Tinge of Green: Mary Watkins, 1820
• 6.He would be Good: Abraham Lincoln’s Early Mathematics, 1819–1826 (This chapter was authored by Nerida Ellerton, Valeria Aguirre Holguin, and M. A. (Ken Clements)
• 7.Sacrobosco’s Heritage: Thomas Dixson’s Cyphering Book, 1630–1632
• 8.Writing as if Arithmeticke: George Bickham’s Cyphering Book, Circa 1740
• 9.Bound for Botany Bay? Circa 1791
• 10.From the Royal Mathematical School: Charles Page, 1825
• 11.Fit for a King? William Beattie, Circa 1810 and 1835–1836
• 12.Lessons from Extraordinary Cyphering Books
• References
• Index.