While educators and policymakers debate whether 8th graders can be readied to learn algebra, Sigrid B. Frawley sits in front of her kindergartners with a magic bag. She puts three tokens in the bag ...

THIS is the first volume of Prof. Hancock's work and is intended as an introduction to the second volume. Its size shows that he is engaged in no light task. His object is to help in making the theory ...

IT is almost a misfortune that Gauss and Smith were such consummate masters of mathematical style. Nearly everyone who writes on an arithmetical topic is tempted to imitate them, at least in their ...

Mathematics in Mesopotamia : Where did mathematics begin? ; Political history in Mesopotamia ; The number symbols ; Arithmetic operations ; Babylonian algebra ; Babylonian geometry ; The uses of ...