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  • Toward Mathematics for All
    M. A. (Ken) Clements / Nerida Ellerton
    This book presents a history of mathematic between 1607 and 1865 in that part of mainland North America which is north of Mexico but excludes the present-day Canada and Alaska. Unlike most other histories of mathematics now available, the emphasis is on the gradual emergence of 'mathematics for all' programs and associated changes in thinking which drove this emergence. The boo...
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    214,25 €

  • Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, James Hodgson, and the Beginnings of Secondary School Mathematics
    M. A. (Ken) Clements / Nerida F. Ellerton
    This book tells one of the greatest stories in the history of school mathematics. Two of the names in the title-Samuel Pepys and Isaac Newton-need no introduction, and this book draws attention to their special contributions to the history of school mathematics. According to Ellerton and Clements, during the last quarter of the seventeenth century Pepys and Newton were key play...
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    148,05 €

  • Thomas Jefferson and his Decimals 1775-1810
    M.A. (Ken) Clements / Nerida F. Ellerton
    This well-illustrated book, by two established historians of school mathematics, documents Thomas Jefferson’s quest, after 1775, to introduce a form of decimal currency to the fledgling United States of America. The book describes a remarkable study showing how the United States’ decision to adopt a fully decimalized, carefully conceived national currency ultimately had a profo...
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    75,64 €

  • Rewriting the History of School Mathematics in North America 1607-1861
    M.A. (Ken) Clements / Nerida Ellerton
    The focus of this book is the fundamental influence of the cyphering tradition on mathematics education in North American colleges, schools, and apprenticeship training classes between 1607 and 1861. It is the first book on the history of North American mathematics education to be written from that perspective. The principal data source is a set of 207 handwritten cyphering boo...
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    134,14 €