When facts are taught, they should also be given history. One learns the trajectory of thinking, how a concept is developed,' ...

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics offers a scholarship for teachers who want to take courses on the history of math, and make it part of classroom lessons.

Math nerds and historians, it's time to get excited. Minds of Modern Mathematics, a new iPad app released Thursday by IBM, presents an interactive timeline of the history of mathematics and its ...

Torkil Heiede, Why Teach History of Mathematics?, The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 76, No. 475, The Use of the History of Mathematics in the Teaching of Mathematics (Mar., 1992), pp. 151-157 ...

The History of Mathematics Research Group studies the origins and development of mathematical ideas and methods from the beginnings of recorded history—in all societies and cultures. Research in this ...

The display succeeds in giving people a sense of how mathematics has been taught in various eras of American history, according to one expert in math education and its history.

Jacqueline Stedall, History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2011) is recommended for introductory (background) reading. Additional reading for each of the sections of the course ...

Applied Mathematics is central to science and engineering education. As early as 1901 Engineering Mathematics was taught by faculty in the College of Engineering. Engineering Mathematics was organized ...