Homework reading for Wed Nov 6, 9 AM: Was Pythagoras Chinese?

 

 

Please read this article, Was Pythagoras Chinese? , which is a more recent response to the Frank Swetz and T. I Kao book of the same name from the late 1970s.

Please comment on the following questions:

•Does it make a difference to our students' learning if we acknowledge (or don't acknowledge) non-European sources of mathematics? Why, or how?

•What are your thoughts about the naming of the Pythagorean Theorem, and other named mathematical theorems and concepts (for example, Pascal's Triangle...check out its history.)