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Topic: Math History

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 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Dictionary
Currently has on their coffee table:National Geographic
Dream job(s):Teacher
Education:Elementary school,  College,  None
Favorite activity(s):Writing stories
Favorite book(s):World Almanac
"The McGuffey Readers" by William Holmes McGuffey
"American Spelling Book" by Noah Webster
Interest(s):Maths,  Geography,  Latin
Favorite great thinker(s):Pythagoras,  Blaise Pascal,  Archimedes
Ultimate fantasy(s):Going back to school
Favorite quote(s):"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." - Gail Godwin
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

While doing some research on the history of maths I read a reference to a method of calculating with the fingers that was probably as powerful as the Abacus and may have been based on binary.
MacTutor History of Maths Archive Mathematicians, chronologies and curves ( Site down?
Women - A gateway to links of women involved in the history of computing and maths.
Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

Our recent school history is one of setting up a middle school, applying an integrated approach to technology, literacy across the school and most recently senior school options reform and year 8 maths reforms.
Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer

I liked maths, history, geography and Russian literature.
Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

Maths might be taught in a New York accent and history in a Lancashire one.
After lunch reading, writing, spelling, maths, history and geography were taught in English.
His favourite subjects were English and Maths, and he was also good at Geography and History.
Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student

‘I was going to do history but then I decided at the last minute to take maths because I started to enjoy it at the end.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

The numerous links lead to maths journals, maths research tools, glossaries, activities, work sheets, maths history, art and mathematics and much more.
It is easier to understand and work in the science lab with a solid background in math; it is easier to understand the historical development of a region by connecting it to the geography and the people of that region; it is easier to understand the art of an era when one understands the history of that same period, etc.
Bibliographies were formed in the arts, math, history, science, geography, English, social studies, science, and education to be used by students and teachers.
 
 
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