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Research Paper: Integrating history into mathematics teaching: An empirical study on years 7 & 8 students

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Research Paper: Integrating history into mathematics teaching: An empirical study on years 7 & 8 students

A paper published by the British Journal for the History of Mathematics detailing a research project in which Jason Yip and I planned and taught a half-term’s worth of maths lessons to two classes at a Secondary School in Milton Keynes. These lessons followed the school’s usual Scheme of Work, but Jason and I included History of Maths content in every lesson.

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Maths in Museums, or the Busperson’s Holiday (for Mathematics Today (IMA))

Maths in Museums, or the Busperson’s Holiday (for Mathematics Today (IMA))

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Maths in Museums, or the Busperson’s Holiday (for Mathematics Today (IMA))

“This article is an open invitation to look at history through a completely different lens, guiding readers to discover how deeply mathematical thinking is woven into historical collections and architecture.”

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The Mathematicians’ Library: The Books That Unlocked the Power of Numbers

The Mathematicians’ Library: The Books That Unlocked the Power of Numbers

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The Mathematicians’ Library: The Books That Unlocked the Power of Numbers

Far from an academic “maths book”, it is a book about maths; about the role that this most ancient of human endeavours has played in the development of humanity, and where its achievements have prompted – and been prompted by – growth in disciplines that many people in the modern world see as entirely separate.

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