Working group 15
Theory and research on the role of history in mathematics education
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction / Fulvia Furinghetti, Jean-Luc Dorier, Uffe Jankvist, Jan van Maanen, Constantinos Tzanakis
- The teaching of vectors in mathematics and physics in France during the 20th century / Cissé Ba, Jean-Luc Dorier
- Geometry teaching in Iceland in the late 1800s and the van Hiele theory / Kristín Bjarnadóttir
- Introducing the normal distribution by following a teaching approach inspired by history: an example for classroom implementation in engineering education / Mónica Blanco, Marta Ginovart
- Arithmetic in primary school in Brazil: end of the nineteenth century / David Antonio Da Costa
- Historical pictures for acting on the view of mathematics / Adriano Demattè, Fulvia Furinghetti
- Students’ beliefs about the evolution and development of mathematics / Uffe Thomas Jankvist
- Using history as a means for the learning of mathematics without losing sight of history: the case of differential equations / Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen
- What works in the classroom. Project on the history of mathematics and the collaborative teaching practice / Snezana Lawrence
- Intuitive geometry in early 1900s Italian middle school / Marta Menghini
- The appropriation of the New Math on the Technical Federal School of Parana in 1960 and 1970 decades / Bárbara Winiarski Diesel Novaes, Neuza Bertoni Pinto
- History, heritage, and the UK mathematics classroom / Leo Rogers
- Introduction of an historical and anthropological perspective in mathematics: an example in secondary school in France / Claire Tardy, Vivianne Durand-Guerrier
- The implementation of the history of mathematics in the new curriculum and textbooks in Greek secondary education / Yannis Thomaidis, Constantinos Tzanakis