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Collective Research Projects in the History of Mathematics Classroom
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Despeaux, Sloan Evans – PRIMUS, 2014
In this article, I will discuss a collective research project that I designed for my History of Mathematics course. My students, who are by and large pre-service teachers, explored online, digital versions of 18th-century British almanacs that contained question-and-answer sections for mathematics. In a multi-stage research process, they explored…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Study, History, Teaching Methods