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Learn from the masters! / edited by Frank Swetz ... [et. al].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Classroom resource materialsPublication details: [Washington, DC] : Mathematical Association of America, c1995.Description: x, 303 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0883857030 (pbk.)
  • 9780883857038:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510.71
Contents:
History of mathematics can help improve instruction and learning / Shmuel Avital -- Role in the history of mathematics of algorithms and analogies / Phillip S. Jones -- Using problems from the history of mathematics in classroom instruction / Frank J. Swetz -- Revisiting the history of logarithms / John Fauvel -- Napier's logarithms adapted for today's classroom / Victor J. Katz -- Trigonometry comes out of the shadows / Frank J. Swetz -- Alluvial deposits, conic sections, and improper glasses, or history of mathematics applied in the classroom / Jan A. van Maanen -- Historical example of mathematical modeling: the trajectory of a cannonball / Frank J. Swetz -- Concept of function--its history and teaching / Man-Keung Siu.
My favorite ways of using history in teaching calculus / V. Frederick Rickey -- Improved teaching of the calculus through the use of historical materials / Michel Helfgott -- Euler and Heuristic reasoning / Man-Keung Siu -- Converging concepts of series: learning from history / Joel P. Lehmann -- Historical thoughts on infinite numbers / Lars Mejlbo -- Historical ideas in teaching linear algebra / Victor J. Katz -- Wessel on vectors / Otto B. Bekken -- Who needs vectors? / Karen Reich -- Teaching of abstract algebra: an historical perspective / Israel Kleiner -- Toward the definition of an abstract ring / David M. Burton and Donovan H. Van Osdol -- In Hilbert's shadow: notes toward a redefinition of introductory group theory / Anthony D. Gardiner.
Episode in the history of celestial mechanics and its utility in the teaching of applied mathematics / Eric J. Aiton -- Mathematical thinking and history of mathematics / Man-Keung Siu -- Topics course in mathematics / Abe Shenitzer.

Proceedings of an international conference/workshop on the history of mathematics held in Kristiansand, Norway, August, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references.

History of mathematics can help improve instruction and learning / Shmuel Avital -- Role in the history of mathematics of algorithms and analogies / Phillip S. Jones -- Using problems from the history of mathematics in classroom instruction / Frank J. Swetz -- Revisiting the history of logarithms / John Fauvel -- Napier's logarithms adapted for today's classroom / Victor J. Katz -- Trigonometry comes out of the shadows / Frank J. Swetz -- Alluvial deposits, conic sections, and improper glasses, or history of mathematics applied in the classroom / Jan A. van Maanen -- Historical example of mathematical modeling: the trajectory of a cannonball / Frank J. Swetz -- Concept of function--its history and teaching / Man-Keung Siu.

My favorite ways of using history in teaching calculus / V. Frederick Rickey -- Improved teaching of the calculus through the use of historical materials / Michel Helfgott -- Euler and Heuristic reasoning / Man-Keung Siu -- Converging concepts of series: learning from history / Joel P. Lehmann -- Historical thoughts on infinite numbers / Lars Mejlbo -- Historical ideas in teaching linear algebra / Victor J. Katz -- Wessel on vectors / Otto B. Bekken -- Who needs vectors? / Karen Reich -- Teaching of abstract algebra: an historical perspective / Israel Kleiner -- Toward the definition of an abstract ring / David M. Burton and Donovan H. Van Osdol -- In Hilbert's shadow: notes toward a redefinition of introductory group theory / Anthony D. Gardiner.

Episode in the history of celestial mechanics and its utility in the teaching of applied mathematics / Eric J. Aiton -- Mathematical thinking and history of mathematics / Man-Keung Siu -- Topics course in mathematics / Abe Shenitzer.

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