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Hands on history : a resource for teaching mathematics

✍ Scribed by Amy Shell-Gellasch (ed.)


Publisher
Mathematical Association of America
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Leaves
191
Series
MAA notes, no. 72.
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Learning from the medieval master masons : a geometric journey through the labyrinth / Hugh McCague --

Dem bones ain't dead : Napier's bones in the classroom / Joanne Peeples --

The towers of Hanoi / Amy Shell-Gellasch --

Rectangular protractors and the mathematics classroom / Amy Ackerberg-Hastings --

Was Pythagoras Chinese? / David E. Zitarelli --

Geometric string models of descriptive geometry / Amy Shell-Gellasch, Bill Acheson --

The French Curve / Brian J. Lunday --

Area without integration : make your own planimeter / Robert L. Foote, Ed Sandifer --

Historical mechanisms for drawing curves / Daina Taimina --

Learning from the Roman land surveyors : a mathematical field exercise / Hugh McCague --

Equating the sun : geometry, models, and practical computing in Greek astronomy / James Evans --

Sundials : an introduction to the history, design, and construction / J.L. Berggren --

Why is a square square and a cube cubical? / Amy Shell-Gellasch --

The cycloid pendulum clock of Christiaan Huygens / Katherine Inouye Lau, Kim Plofker --

Build a brachistochrone and captivate your class / V. Frederick Rickey --

Exhibiting mathematical objects : making sense of your department's material culture / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings.


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