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Mathematical motivators: using the history of mathematics to enrich the curriculum [PDF]
, 2011 This article provides a summary of the MSOR funded mini project Mathematical Motivators. Mathematics is usually, and of course correctly, presented ‘ready-made’ to students, with techniques and applications presented systematically and in a logical order.
Bradshaw, Noel-Ann +2 more
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The Use of History of Mathematics in the Mathematics Classroom: An Action Study
International Journal of Education in Mathematics Science and Technology, 2020 In this action study, instructional environments were enriched with activities related to the history of mathematics in order to deepen students’ beliefs about mathematics and reveal for them fun, interesting, and useful activities.
S. Bütüner, A. Baki
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Physical Mathematics and The Fine-Structure Constant [PDF]
, 2018 Research into ancient physical structures, some having been known as the seven wonders of the ancient world, inspired new developments in the early history of mathematics.
Sherbon, Michael A.
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International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020 Integration of history of mathematics (HOM) in mathematics education is emerging as frontier endowed with utility to stem decline in uptake, enhance performance and alter the negative perceptions about the subject.
Lifeas Kudakwashe Kapofu +1 more
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Historical objections against the number line [PDF]
, 2011 Historical studies on the development of mathematical concepts will help mathematics teachers to relate their students’ difficulties in understanding to conceptual problems in the history of mathematics.
Heeffer, Albrecht
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History of Mathematics Education in China
Pasundan Journal of Mathematics Education : Jurnal Pendidikan Matematika, 2020 China has a very long history of contributing to human civilisation, including its contribution to mathematics development. The Chinese had discovered many essential theories and concepts in mathematics long before the more famous Western mathematicians.
A. Mustafa
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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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An evaluation of activities based on the use of the history of mathematics as a tool
Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2020 In this study, teacher candidates were asked to evaluate activities designed with the use of the history of mathematics (HoM) as a tool in terms of the obstacles to the use of the HoM.
S. Bütüner
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Health and pathology: a brief history of the biopolitics of US mathematics education
Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2021 Concerns about health and disease have long pervaded mathematics education research, yet their implications have been underappreciated. This article focuses on three contemporary relationships amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) school mathematics ...
Ryan Ziols, Kathryn L. Kirchgasler
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Variations in duty arrangements to respond to concerns about children's welfare [PDF]
, 2006 Historians and philosophers of mathematics share an interest in the nature of mathematics: what it is, what features affect its growth, how it informs other disciplines. But much of the work done in history and philosophy of mathematics suggests that the
Statham, June, Cameron, Claire
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