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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Amy Shell-Gellasch; Dick Jardine; Mathematical Association of America. |
| ISBN: | 0883851784 9780883851784 |
| OCLC Number: | 224856175 |
| Notes: | Formerly CIP. |
| Description: | xii, 255 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Contents: | Arthur Cayley and the first paper on group theory / David J. Pengelley -- Putting the differential back into differential calculus / Robert Rogers -- Using Galois' ideas in the teaching of abstract algebra / Matt D. Lunsford -- Teaching elliptic curves using original sources / Lawrence D'Antonio -- Using the historical development of predator-prey models to teach mathematical modeling / Holly P. Hirst -- How to use history to clarify common confusions in geometry / Daina Taimina and David W. Henderson -- Euler on Cevians / Eisso J. Atzema and Homer White -- Modern geometry after the end of mathematics / Jeff Johannes -- Using 20th century history in a conbinatories and graph theory class / Linda E. McGuire -- Public key cryptography / Shai Simonson -- Introducing logic via Turing machines / Jerry M. Lodder -- From Hilbert's program to computer programming / William Calhoun -- From the tree method in modern logic to the beginning of automated theorem proofing / Francine F. Abeles -- Numerical methods history projects / Dick Jardine -- Foundations of statistics in American textbooks: probability and pedagogy in historical context / Patti Wilger Hunter -- Incorporating the mathematical achievements of women and minority mathematicians into classrooms / Sarah J. Greenwald -- Mathematical topics in an undergraduate history of science course / David Lindsay Roberts -- Building a history of mathematics course from a local perspective / Amy Shell-Gellasch -- Protractors in the classroom: an historical perspective / Amy Ackerberg-Hastings -- The metric system enters the American classroom: 1790-1890 / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell -- Some wrinkles for a history of mathematics course / Peter Ross -- Teaching history of mathematics through problems / John R. Prather. |
| Series Title: | MAA notes, 68.; MAA notes, no. 68. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Ann Shell-Gellasch and Dick Jardine. |
Abstract:
Classroom resource material allowing the integration of mathematics history into undergraduate mathematics teaching.
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