Hands on History: A Resource for Teaching Mathematics (M A A NOTES, Band 72) - Softcover

Shell-Gellasch, Amy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0883851822 ISBN 13: 9780883851821

Verlag: MATHEMATICAL ASSN OF AMER, 2008

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Uses the history of mathematics to facilitate active learning in the mathematics classroom.

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Amy Shell-Gellash is currently a faculty fellow at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. She is the Programs Chair for the History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the MAA as well as Chairing the MAA Committee on SIGMAA's. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1989, her master's degree from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan in 1995, and her doctor of arts degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2000. Her dissertation was a biographical piece on mathematician Mina Rees. Most recently, she conducted research with V. Fredrick Rickey on the history of the Department Sciences at the United States Military Academy, where she was an Assistant Professor.

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This volume is a compilation of articles from researchers and educators who use the history of mathematics to facilitate active learning in the classroom. The contributions range from simple devices such as the rectangular protractor that can be made in a geometry classroom, to elaborate models of descriptive geometry that can be used as a major project in a college mathematics course. Other chapters contain detailed descriptions on how to build and use historical models in the high school or collegiate mathematics classroom. Some of the items included in this volume are: sundials, planimeters, Napier s Bones, linkages, cycloid clock, a labyrinth, and an apparatus that demonstrates the brachistocrone in the classroom.Research shows that students learn best when, as opposed to imply listening or reading, they actively participate in their learning. In particular, hands-on activities provide the greatest opportunities for gaining understanding and promoting retention. Apart from simple manipulatives, the mathematics classroom offers a few options or hands-on activities. However, the history of mathematics offers many ways to incorporate hands-on learning into the mathematics classroom. Prior to computer modeling, many aspects of mathematics and its applications were explored and realized through mechanical models and devices. By bringing this material culture of mathematics into the classroom, students can experience historical applications and uses of mathematics in a setting rich in discovery and intellectual interest. Whether replicas of historical devices or models used to represent a topic from the history of mathematics, using models of a historical nature allows students to combine three important areas of their education: mathematics and mathematical reasoning; mechanical and spatial reasoning and manipulation; and evaluation of historical versus contemporary mathematical techniques.

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• Verlag: MATHEMATICAL ASSN OF AMER
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0883851822
• ISBN 13: 9780883851821
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 190
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