LEADER 05066nam 22005535 450 001 9910255100203321 005 20200704145652.0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-46657-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000001083956 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-46657-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4816288 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001083956 100 $a20170302d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSamuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, James Hodgson, and the Beginnings of Secondary School Mathematics$b[electronic resource] $eA History of the Royal Mathematical School Within Christ?s Hospital, London 1673?1868 /$fby Nerida F. Ellerton, M. A. (Ken) Clements 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XXIV, 325 p. 36 illus., 32 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aHistory of Mathematics Education,$x2509-9736 311 $a3-319-46656-9 311 $a3-319-46657-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aMathematics in the Christ?s Hospital Curriculum Before 1673 -- Mathematics Beyond Arithmetic?Expanding the Domain of School Mathematics -- Stars in the RMS Firmament 1673?1798 -- Years of Struggle for RMS 1673?1708 -- Developments in RMS Curricula 1673?1798 -- RMS Comes of Age 1709?1755: The Hodgson Era -- William Wales: RMS Master 1776?1798 -- Redefining School Mathematics at Christ?s Hospital 1800?1868 -- An Appropriate Theoretical Lens: Lag Time -- The Importance of the Royal Mathematical School in the History of School Mathematics.-. 330 $aThis book tells one of the greatest stories in the history of school mathematics. Two of the names in the title?Samuel Pepys and Isaac Newton?need no introduction, and this book draws attention to their special contributions to the history of school mathematics. According to Ellerton and Clements, during the last quarter of the seventeenth century Pepys and Newton were key players in defining what school mathematics beyond arithmetic and elementary geometry might look like. The scene at which most of the action occurred was Christ?s Hospital, which was a school, ostensibly for the poor, in central London. The Royal Mathematical School (RMS) was established at Christ?s Hospital in 1673. It was the less well-known James Hodgson, a fine mathematician and RMS master between 1709 and 1755, who demonstrated that topics such as logarithms, plane and spherical trigonometry, and the application of these to navigation, might systematically and successfully be taught to 12- to 16-year-old school children. From a wider history-of-school-education perspective, this book tells how the world?s first secondary-school mathematics program was created and how, slowly but surely, what was being achieved at RMS began to influence school mathematics in other parts of Great Britain, Europe, and America. The book has been written from the perspective of the history of school mathematics. Ellerton and Clements?s analyses of pertinent literature and of archival data, and their interpretations of those analyses, have led them to conclude that RMS was the first major school in the world to teach mathematics-beyond-arithmetic, on a systematic basis, to students aged between 12 and 16. Throughout the book, Ellerton and Clements examine issues through the lens of a lag-time theoretical perspective. From a historiographical perspective, this book emphasizes how the history of RMS can be portrayed in very different ways, depending on the vantage point from which the history is written. The authors write from the vantage point of international developments in school mathematics education and, therefore, their history of RMS differs from all other histories of RMS, most of which were written from the perspective of the history of Christ?s Hospital. . 410 0$aHistory of Mathematics Education,$x2509-9736 606 $aMathematics?Study and teaching  606 $aMathematics 606 $aHistory 606 $aMathematics Education$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/O25000 606 $aHistory of Mathematical Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M23009 615 0$aMathematics?Study and teaching . 615 0$aMathematics. 615 0$aHistory. 615 14$aMathematics Education. 615 24$aHistory of Mathematical Sciences. 676 $a510.712 700 $aEllerton$b Nerida F$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01063354 702 $aClements$b M. A. (Ken)$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255100203321 996 $aSamuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, James Hodgson, and the Beginnings of Secondary School Mathematics$92531929 997 $aUNINA