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

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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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Guest appearance on The Mathematicians Podcast

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For a special edition of The Mathematicians Podcast, host Ben Cornish invited me to join him in conversation about my similarly-titled book, The Mathematicians’ Library.

The Mathematicians’ Library shortlisted for Book of the Year

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“… if you get the chance to flick through a copy in a library or bookshop you will find your attention constantly being captured by a piece of mathematical history or a page from a book that you have heard of but never seen before”

– Chalkdust Editors

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

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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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