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January 02, 2008
Amy (Spellman) Shell-Gellasch, '89, editor
Hands on History: A Resource for Teaching Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America, 2007.
The book: This book is a compilation of articles from mathematics educators and historians of mathematics and science who use history in their teaching. This volume presents detailed descriptions of how to build or have students build and use historical models in the high school or collegiate mathematics classroom. Each model is either a replica of a historical device or a model depicting a historical mathematical or scientific concept.
The author: Amy Shell-Gellasch has edited two other volumes, "From Calculus to Computers" with Dick Jardine and the proceedings of a conference on the history of undergraduate mathematics in America. A native of Birmingham, Michigan, she currently is a faculty fellow at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.
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