Hands on history
Subtitle: a resource for teaching mathematics
By: edited by Amy Shell-Gellasch.
Contributors: Shell-Gellasch, Amy.
Series: MAA notes -- no. 72
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780883851821
Subjects: Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Higher); Mathematics -- History; Mathematical instruments
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Learning from the medieval master masons : a geometric journey through the labyrinth  -- Hugh McCague; title: Dem bones ain't dead : Napier's bones in the classroom  -- Joanne Peeples -- The; title: towers of Hanoi  -- Amy Shell-Gellasch; title: Rectangular protractors and the mathematics classroom  -- Amy Ackerberg-Hastings; title: Was Pythagoras Chinese?  -- David E. Zitarelli; title: Geometric string models of descriptive geometry  -- Amy Shell-Gellasch, -- Bill Acheson -- The; title: French Curve  -- Brian J. Lunday; title: Area without integration : make your own planimeter  -- Robert L. Foote, -- Ed Sandifer; title: Historical mechanisms for drawing curves  -- Daina Taimina; title: Learning from the Roman land surveyors : a mathematical field exercise  -- Hugh McCague; title: Equating the sun : geometry, models, and practical computing in Greek astronomy  -- James Evans; title: Sundials : an introduction to the history, design, and construction  -- J.L. Berggren; title: Why is a square square and a cube cubical?  -- Amy Shell-Gellasch; title: The cycloid pendulum clock of Christiaan Huygens  -- Katherine Inouye Lau, -- Kim Plofker; title: Build a brachistochrone and captivate your class  -- V. Frederick Rickey; title: Exhibiting mathematical objects : making sense of your department's material culture -- Peggy Aldrich Kidwell,-- Amy Ackerberg-Hastings