Hands on history : a resource for teaching mathematics / edited by Amy Shell-Gellasch.

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Learning from the medieval master masons : a geometric journey through the labyrinth / Hugh McCague -- Dem bones ain't dead : Napier's bones in the classroom / Joanne Peeples -- The towers of Hanoi / Amy Shell-Gellasch -- Rectangular protractors and the mathematics classroom / Amy Ackerberg-Hastings -- Was Pythagoras Chinese? / David E. Zitarelli -- Geometric string models of descriptive geometry / Amy Shell-Gellasch, Bill Acheson -- The French Curve / Brian J. Lunday -- Area without integration : make your own planimeter / Robert L. Foote, Ed Sandifer -- Historical mechanisms for drawing curves / Daina Taimina -- Learning from the Roman land surveyors : a mathematical field exercise / Hugh McCague -- Equating the sun : geometry, models, and practical computing in Greek astronomy / James Evans -- Sundials : an introduction to the history, design, and construction / J.L. Berggren -- Why is a square square and a cube cubical? / Amy Shell-Gellasch -- The cycloid pendulum clock of Christiaan Huygens / Katherine Inouye Lau, Kim Plofker -- Build a brachistochrone and captivate your class / V. Frederick Rickey -- Exhibiting mathematical objects : making sense of your department's material culture / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings.

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This volume is a compilation of articles from researchers and educators who use the history of mathematics to facilitate active learning in the classroom. The contributions range from simple devices such as the rectangular protractor that can be made in a geometry classroom, to elaborate models of descriptive geometry that can be used as a major project in a college mathematics course. Other chapters contain detailed descriptions on how to build and use historical models in the high school or collegiate mathematics classroom. Some of the items included in this volume are: sundials, planimeters, Napier's Bones, linkages, cycloid clock, a labyrinth, and an apparatus that demonstrates the brachistocrone in the classroom. Whether replicas of historical devices or models are used to represent a topic from the history of mathematics, using models of a historical nature allows students to combine three important areas of their education: mathematics and mathematical reasoning; mechanical and spatial reasoning and manipulation; and evaluation of historical versus contemporary mathematical techniques.

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