History of Mathematics in the classroom

It's well known that the history of mathematics plays an important role in the didactis of mathematics. The knowledge of how and when some problems and resolution methods are borned, not only contributes to a complete and unitary vision of the knowledge in general, but also to the assimilation of technical arguments and to the identification and overcome of some difficulties.

In this section The Garden of Archimedes places at disposal of school's teachers, contributions on some typical school's programs subjects, hoping that could be of some help for the work in the classrooms.

• Brief history of trigonometry
• The history of the infinitesimal calculus in the books of the library of Mathematics
• Back to the birth of our numbers (only available in Italian)
• Algebra in Arabic mathematics (only available in Italian)
• Misuring problems in the Practical geometry by Cristofano di Gherardo di Dino (only available in Italian)

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