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  • History of Number

    Evidence from Papua New Guinea and Oceania

    by Glen Lean, Patricia Paraide, Charly Muke, Kay Owens ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This unique volume presents an ecocultural and embodied perspective on understanding numbers and their history in indigenous communities. The book focuses on research carried out in Papua New Guinea and Oceania, and will help educators understand humanity's use of numbers, and their development and change. The authors focus on indigenous mathematics education in the early years and shine light on ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

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  • A Mathematician's Lament

    How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

    by Paul Lockhart ...
    “One of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen, written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to K-12 education.” —Keith Devlin, NPR’s “Math Guy”A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The King of Infinite Space

    Euclid and His Elements

    by David Berlinski ...
    Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion. And for over two thousand years, geometry has been equated with Euclid's Elements, arguably the most influential book in the history of mathematics In The King of Infinite Space, renowned mathematics writer David Berlinski provides a concise homage to this elusive ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • History of Modern Mathematics

    by David E Smith ...
    In considering the history of modern mathematics two questions at once arise:(1) What limitations shall be placed upon the term Mathematics?(2) What force shall be assigned to the word Modern? In other words, how shall Modern Mathematics be defined?In these pages the term Mathematics will be limited to the domain of pure science. Questions of the applications of the various branches will be ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Cognitive Science and Mathematics Education

    Edited by Alan H. Schoenfeld ...
    This volume is a result of mathematicians, cognitive scientists, mathematics educators, and classroom teachers combining their efforts to help address issues of importance to classroom instruction in mathematics. In so doing, the contributors provide a general introduction to fundamental ideas in cognitive science, plus an overview of cognitive theory and its direct implications for mathematics ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • On the Teaching of Linear Algebra

    Edited by J.-L. Dorier ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    To a large extent, it lies, no doubt, in what is presented in this work under the title of ‘meta lever‘, a method which it is certainly interesting to develop and further refine. There exists in mathematics courses a strange prudery which forbids one to ask questions such as, ‹‹ Why are we doing this? », ‹‹ At what is the objective aimed? », whereas it is usually easy to reply to such questions, ... Read more

    $267.99 CAD

  • Shifts in the Field of Mathematics Education

    Stephen Lerman and the turn to the social

    Edited by Peter Gates, Robyn Jorgensen (Zevenbergen) ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Professor Stephen Lerman has been a leader in the field of mathematics education for thirty years. His work is extensive, making many significant contributions to a number of key areas of research. Stephen retired from South Bank University in 2012, where he had worked for over 20 years, though he continues to work at Loughborough University. In this book several of his long standing colleagues ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Turning Points in the History of Mathematics

    by Israel Kleiner, Hardy Grant ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book explores some of the major turning points in the history of mathematics, ranging from ancient Greece to the present, demonstrating the drama that has often been a part of its evolution. Studying these breakthroughs, transitions, and revolutions, their stumbling-blocks and their triumphs, can help illuminate the importance of the history of mathematics for its teaching, learning, and ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education

    Edited by Alexander Karp, Gert Schubring ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This is the first comprehensive International Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education, covering a wide spectrum of epochs and civilizations, countries and cultures. Until now, much of the research into the rich and varied history of mathematics education has remained inaccessible to the vast majority of scholars, not least because it has been written in the language, and for readers, of ... Read more

    $408.59 CAD

  • Perspectives on the Teaching of Geometry for the 21st Century

    An ICMI Study

    Edited by V. Villani, C. Mammana ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In recent years geometry seems to have lost large parts of its former central position in mathematics teaching in most countries. However, new trends have begun to counteract this tendency. There is an increasing awareness that geometry plays a key role in mathematics and learning mathematics. Although geometry has been eclipsed in the mathematics curriculum, research in geometry has blossomed as ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Exploring Classical Greek Construction Problems with Interactive Geometry Software

    by Ad Meskens, Paul Tytgat ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    In this book the classical Greek construction problems are explored in a didactical, enquiry based fashion using Interactive Geometry Software (IGS). The book traces the history of these problems, stating them in modern terminology. By focusing on constructions and the use of IGS the reader is confronted with the same problems that ancient mathematicians once faced. The reader can step into the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, James Hodgson, and the Beginnings of Secondary School Mathematics

    A History of the Royal Mathematical School Within Christ’s Hospital, London 1673–1868

    by M. A. (Ken) Clements, Nerida F. Ellerton ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This 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 ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD