Hello everyone, and welcome to this very interesting and exciting course. We will be exploring aspects of the history of mathematics from a wide range of eras and cultures, through problem-solving, working with mathematics in historical ways, and through connections with our current BC curriculum and the arts.
It is truly amazing and eye-opening to learn about the ways that our ancestors and people of every culture and historical have worked with sophisticated concepts of number, shape, and patterned relationships. We will explore many of the roots of ideas we teach in school and tend to take for granted nowadays -- and I hope this will just be the beginning of your ongoing interest and understanding of the history of mathematics and the sciences.
Here is a link to our REVISED course outline (which may be revised as we go along). Happy historical learning!
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The earliest recorded use of zero, Bakhshali manuscript, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford |
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