1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299552103321

Autore

Barbin Évelyne

Titolo

Let History into the Mathematics Classroom / / by Évelyne Barbin, Jean-Paul Guichard, Marc Moyon, Patrick Guyot, Catherine Morice-Singh, Frédéric Métin, Martine Bühler, Dominique Tournès, Renaud Chorlay, Gérard Hamon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

9783319571508

3319571508

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIV, 146 p. 61 illus., 16 illus. in color.)

Collana

History of Mathematics Education, , 2509-9744

Disciplina

510.71

Soggetti

Mathematics - Study and teaching

Learning, Psychology of

Mathematics Education

Instructional Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 mathematicians—such as Gottfried Leibniz and Leonard Euler—as well as to less famous practitioners and engineers. Always, there is



the attempt to associate the experiments with their scientific and cultural contexts. One of the main values of history is to show that the notions and concepts we teach were invented to solve problems. The different chapters of this collection all have, as their starting points, historic problems—mathematical or not. These are problems of exchanging and sharing, of dividing figures and volumes as well as engineers’ problems, calculations, equations and congruence. The mathematical reasoning which accompanies these actions is illustrated by the use of drawings, folding, graphical constructions and the production of machines.

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00017693

Autore

SCHIPPER, Kristofer Marinus

Titolo

Une Collection de manuscrits de pièces de théatre d'ombres chinoises / Kristofer Schipper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : European Association of Chinese Studies, 1979

Descrizione fisica

p.7-74

Classificazione

CIN IX H

Soggetti

TEATRO CINESE - TESTI - SEC. XIX-XX

Lingua di pubblicazione

Molteplice

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia