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The Recreational Problems of Tratado de Prática Darysmetica by Gaspar Nicolas, 1519
In this paper, we present the contents of a 1519 Portuguese treatise of commercial arithmetic, the Tratado de Prática Darysmetica, by Gaspar Nicolas,...
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Constructive Combinatorics in Elementary School Mathematics
AbstractThe paper describes in detail a class of educational problems from an elementary school course of mathematics and computer science. This...
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The Skies Are Falling: Mathematics for Non-Mathematicians
AbstractMathematical education, both mass education, and university education of non-mathematicians, are in an abominable state, and rapidly...
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Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics The CSHPM 2021 Volume
This volume contains eighteen papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics. It showcases...
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Influences in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Mathematical Practice
What characterizes twentieth-century mathematics? Or twenty-first-century mathematics? As opposed to mathematical practices? The former is too broad...
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Problem Posing Among Preservice and Inservice Mathematics Teachers
This study explored whether significant differences can be found in word problems composed by preservice teachers and inservice teachers in the...
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Pragmaticism as a Philosophy of Cognitive Mathematics
This chapter is a survey of Charles S. Peirce’s philosophy of pragmaticism as applied to the analysis of the meanings of mathematical practice from...
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Influences in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Mathematical Practice
What characterizes twentieth-century mathematics? Or twenty-first-century mathematics? As opposed to mathematical practices? The former is too broad...
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics to Generate New Spatial Imaginaries
Although not typically thought of as useful or relevant to social theory, this chapter proposes that mathematical ideas and tools can be used to...
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics to Generate New Spatial Imaginaries
Although not typically thought of as useful or relevant to social theory, this chapter proposes that mathematical ideas and tools can be used to...
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Architecture and Mathematics: An Ancient Symbiosis
From the construction of primitive tribal huts to the design of technologically advanced high-rise buildings, architects have relied on and been...
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Mathematics and Cultures Across the Chessboard: The Wheat and Chessboard Problem
This chapter is an introduction to the wheat and chessboard problem and the interplay between chess and mathematics in the several authors and...
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Pragmaticism as a Philosophy of Cognitive Mathematics
This chapter is a survey of Charles S. Peirce’s philosophy of pragmaticism as applied to the analysis of the meanings of mathematical practice from...
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Mathematics, Statistics, and Sports
This chapter defines and discusses several basic terms related to the topic of teaching mathematics and statistics, i.e., mathematics, mathematics...
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A Guide to Penrose Tilings
This book provides an elementary introduction, complete with detailed proofs, to the celebrated tilings of the plane discovered by Sir Roger Penrose...
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Mathematical Elements of Elementary Education
AbstractIn recent decades, several Russian schools have been implementing a world-unique education program of mathematics for elementary schools. In...
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A First Course in Graph Theory and Combinatorics Second Edition
This book discusses the origin of graph theory from its humble beginnings in recreational mathematics to its modern setting or modeling communication...
