Using History to Teach Mathematics An International Perspective

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Cover Title page Preface Part I: General Ideas on the Use of History in Teaching The ABCD of Using History of Mathematics in the (Undergraduate) Classroom, Siu Man-Keung Mathematical Pedagogy: An Historical Perspective, Frank Swetz On the Benefits of Introducing Undergraduates to the History of Mathematics: A French Perspecûve, Anne Michel-Pajus Part II: Historical Ideas and their Relationship to Pedagogy The History of Mathematics and Its Influence on Pedagogical Problems, Lucia Grugnetti Euclid versus Liu Hui: A Pedagogical Reflection, Wann-Sheng Horng The Long Tradition of History in Mathematics Teaching: An Old Italian Case, Fulvia Furinghetti Problem Solving from the History of Mathematics, Frank Swetz Part III: Teaching a Particular Subject Using History Second Degree Equations in the Classroom: A Babylonian Approach, Luis Radford and George Gutrette Anomalies and the Development of Mathematical Understanding, Janet Heine Barnett The Historicity of the Notion of What is Obvious in Geometry, Evelyne Barbin Use of History in a Research Work on the Teaching of Linear Algebra, Jean-Luc Dorier Presenting the Relation Between Mathematics and Physics on the Basis of Their History: A Genetic Approach, Constantinos Tzanakis Part IV: The Use of History in Teacher Training A Historical Approach to Developing the Cultural Significance of Mathematics Among First Year Preservice Primary School Teachers, Jan Isaacs, V. Mohan Ram, and Ann Richards The Analysis of Regula Falsi as an Instance for Professional Development of Elementary School Teachers, Greisy Winicki Mathematics and its History: An Educational Partnersbip, Maxim Bruckheimer and Abrahmn Areavi Part V: The History of Mathematics Mesopotamian Mathematics: Some Historical Background, Eleanor Robson An Excursion in Ancient Chinese Mathematics, Siu Man-Keung The Value of Mathematics: A Medieval Islamic View, George W. Heine III Mathematics, Humanism, and Urban Planning in Renaissance Italy, Uwe Gellert An Epistemological History of Number and Variation, Luis E. Moreno-Armella and Guillermina Waldegg Combinatorics: A Historical and Pedagogical Approach, Robin Wilson The History of Non-Euclidean Geometry, Torkil Heiede Scientific Research and Teaching Problems in Beltrami's Letters to Hoüel. Livia Giacardi A Window on the World of Mathematics, 1870, Gavin Hitchcock Some Notes on the History of Mathematics in Portugal, Antônio Leal Duarte, Jaime Carvalho e Silva, and Joao Filipe Queirô Mathematics in South and Central America: An Overview, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio Notes on Contributors