Recent Developments on Introducing a Historical Dimension in Mathematics Education

Part I: 1. Teaching with primary historical sources: should it go mainstream? Can it? David Pengelley; 2. Dialogism in mathematical writing: historical, philosophical and pedagogical issues Evelyne Barbin; 3. The process of mathematical agreement: examples from mathematics history and an experimental sequence of activities Gustavo Martinez Sierra and Antonio-Antonio Rocío; 4. Researching the history of algebraic ideas from an educational point of view Luis Puig; 5. Equations and imaginary numbers: a contribution from Renaissance algebra Giorgio T. Bagni; 6. The multiplicity of viewpoints in elementary function theory: historical and didactical perspectives Renaud Chorlay; 7. From history to research in mathematics education: socio-epistemological elements for trigonometric functions Gabriela Buendia Abalos and Gisela Montiel Espinosa; Part II: 8. Harmonies in nature: a dialogue between mathematics and physics Man-Keung Siu; 9. Exposure to mathematics in the making Batya Amit, Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadar and Tsvi Berman; 10. Historical pictures for acting on the image of mathematics Adriano Demattè and Fulvia Furinghetti; 11. Pedagogy, history and mathematics: the theme of measure Luis Casas and Ricardo Luengo; 12. Students' beliefs about the evolution and development of mathematics Uffe Thomas Jankvist; 13. The effects of studying the history of the concept of function on student understanding of the concept Beverly M. Reed; 14. Integrating the history of mathematics into activities introducing undergraduates to concepts of calculus Theodorus Paschos and Vassiliki Farmaki; 15. A multiple perspective approach to the history of the practice of mathematics in a competency based mathematics education: history as a means for the learning of differential equations Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen; 16. History of statistics and students' difficulties in comprehending variance Michael Kourkoulos and Constantinos Tzanakis; 17. Learning discrete mathematics and computer science via primary historical sources: student projects for the classroom Janet Heine Barnett, Jerry Lodder, David Pengelley, Inna Pivkina and Desh Ranjan; Part III: 18. History of mathematics for primary school teacher education, or, can you do something even if you can't do much? Bjorn Smestad; 19. Reflection and revision: evolving conceptions of using a history course Kathleen Clarke; 20. Mapping our heritage to the curriculum: historical and pedagogical strategies for the professional development of teachers Leo Rogers; 21. Teachers' conceptions of history of mathematics Bjorn Smestad; Part IV: 22. The evolution of a community of mathematical researchers in North America: 1636-1950 Karen Hunger Parshall; 23. The transmission and acquisition of mathematics in Latin America, from independence to the first half of the 20th century Ubiratan D'Ambrosio; 24. In search of vanishing subjects: the astronomical origins of trigonometry Glen Van Brummelen.