Historical Topics for the Mathematics Classroom - Softcover

 
9780873532815: Historical Topics for the Mathematics Classroom

Synopsis

Originally published in 1969 as NCTM's Thirty-first Yearbook, this updated edition contains a new chapter that discusses contemporary mathematics. The original chapters provide the why and the how of using the history of mathematics in the contemporary clroom, along with historical overviews and more detailed capsules on such topics as numbers and numerals, computation, geometry,and algebra.

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