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Let History into the Mathematics Classroom
Let History into the Mathematics Classroom
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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, Indian, Chinese and Arabic mathematics as well as to contemporary mathematics. Students are introduced to well-known mathematicianssuch as Gottfried Leibniz and Leonard Euleras well as to less famous practitioners and engineers. Always, there is the attempt to associate the experiments with their scientific and cultural contexts.