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History of mathematics (HM) in secondary school mathematics textbook
Cogent Education, 2023 The purpose of this study was to investigate elements of the history of mathematics in secondary school mathematics textbooks in Ethiopia. In line with this, the study also identified the extent to which mathematics is seen as a social construct in ...
Dejene Girma Denbel
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The life and activities of Jonas Matulionis
Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys, 2023 A brief biography of the mathematician prof. J. Matulionis is presented. The accent is made on the most significant links of his life – the study period and the longevous work at the Kaunas University of Technology.
Vidmantas Pekarskas, Aldona Pekarskienė
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Cajori’s History of Mathematics [PDF]
The Mathematical Gazette, 1894 The extraordinary development, ramification, and specialisation which our generation sees in all science, but especially in the queen of sciences, mathematics, makes imperative a determined attempt to keep connected these new and growing fields.
Halsted, George Bruce, Cajori, Florian
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History of Mathematics and History of Science [PDF]
Isis, 2011 This essay argues that the diversity of the history of mathematics community in the United Kingdom has influenced the development of the subject and is a significant factor behind the different concerns often evident in work on the history of mathematics when compared with that of historians of science.
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Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys, 2005 A short biography of the prominent Lithuanian mathematician and educator Zigmas Žemaitis (1884–1969) is given.
Jonas Kubilius
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Mathematics, 2022 Old mathematics books and textbooks have focused different researchers onto the history of mathematics and mathematics education. However, books are not the only information source for this field; for example, researchers can also study periodical-type ...
María José Madrid +3 more
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Mathematics, 2022 This article proposes a possible path devoted to upper secondary school and early university students, as well as training teachers, with the aim to build a conscious approach to the learning/teaching of the conics, which uses, for an educational purpose,
Emilia Florio
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History of mathematics and teaching mathematics [PDF]
Inovacije u nastavi, 2014 Th e paper discusses the possibilities of using contents of history of mathematics as a supporting strategy in the teaching of mathematics. Th ere is plenty of research that promotes using historical content in mathematics lessons, but only a few of them are of empirical nature.
Mirko Dejic, Aleksandra Mihajlovic
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From Plato to Weil and beyond: Genericity through the history of mathematics
Khronos, 2020 At the end of the 19th century, genericity took an important step toward mathematical analysis, due to the developments promoted by the Italian school of algebraic geometry.
Renato Reis Leme, Giorgio Venturi
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