Let History into the Mathematics Classroom

• Main Authors: Barbin, Évelyne (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Guichard, Jean-Paul (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Moyon, Marc (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Guyot, Patrick (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Morice-Singh, Catherine (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Métin, Frédéric (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Bühler, Martine (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tournès, Dominique (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Chorlay, Renaud (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Hamon, Gérard (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: History of Mathematics Education,
• Subjects: Mathematics-Study and teaching .; Learning.; Instruction.; Mathematics Education.; Learning & Instruction.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.