While American children once learned to add by reading a poster of animals and birds, they do it now by playing games on computers. Each step in between—whether it be a box of blocks or exercises ...

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INSPIRED BY the film “Hearts and Hands,” mathematics teacher Theda Mayer and her Long Reach High School students decided to create a sampler quilt as a hands-on way to learn about history, geometry ...

A tablet that dates back some 3700 years has been found to be the oldest example of applied geometry in the history of mathematics. Australian mathematician Dr. Daniel Mansfield from UNSW Science's ...

When facts are taught, they should also be given history. One learns the trajectory of thinking, how a concept is developed,' ...

Like many of the cultures it studies, the Department of History of Mathematics has had innovative leaders, a golden era and, inevitably, a fall from glory. This year could witness the end of a ...