NOTE: This outline is provided for informational purposes, but these lesson plans are not completed yet. Second Cycle lesson plans are scheduled to be released next year (2009).

Living Math History Lesson Plans: Cycle 2 Outline
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Classical Logic and Philosophy


Lesson 1: Math is Everywhere, Take 2

Lesson 2: The "A" Team, Zeno and Eudoxus - Origins of philosophy and paradox

Lesson 3: Plato & Aristotle - Mathematics and reason

Lesson 4: Euclid and Aristarchus of Alexandria - First Mathematics Textbook

Lesson 5: Shen Kua and Zhu Shijie - Chinese Mathematics in the Middle Ages

Lesson 6: Augustine and Aquinas - Philosophy, the Church, and Science

Lesson 7: Omar Khayyam

Lesson 8: Nicolas Oresme and Fibonacci Redux

Great Ideas in the Age of Reason

Lesson 9: Niccolo "Tartaglia" Fontana and Girolamo Cardano - Italian rival gambler

:esson 10: Gerardus Mercator 1512-1594 - Mapping the World

Lesson 11: Rene Descartes 1596-1650 Cartesian Geometry

Lesson 12:  Pierre de Fermat  -  a World Famous Math Problem

Lesson 13: Maria Agnesi 1718-1799 and Gregor Mendel 1822-1884: Mathematics and the Cloth

Lesson 14: Daniel Fahrenheit 1686-1736, Joseph Black 1731-1810 and Henry Cavendish 1731-1810

Lesson 15: Benjamin Banneker 1731-1806, African Amercan mathematician

Lesson 16: Antoine Lavoisier 1743-1794, John Dalton 1766–1844, and Meldelyev 1834-1907: Math meetsf Chemistry

The Age of Technology

Lesson 17: Ben Franklin and Benjamin Thompson: Magic Squares, and Electricity

Lesson 18: Napoleon, French mathe- maticians and the Metric System

Lesson 19: Faraday and Maxwell - Mathematics and Thermodynamics

Lesson 20: Thomas Bayes, Pierre-Simon LaPlace, and Gregor Mendel - Probability

Lesson 21: Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, pioneers of computing

Lesson 22: Mary Somerville, Sonya Kovalevsky - Women in Mathematics

Lesson 23: Boole, Cayley and Sylvester

Lesson 24: Neils Abel, Weuerstrass
Math and the Arts


Lesson 25: August Mobius and
Felix Christian Klein

Lesson 26: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
(Lewis Carroll)

Lesson 27: The Logicians:  Alfred North Whitehead, Bertram Russell, and Kurt Godel

Lesson 28: Albert Einstein

Lesson 29: George Polya / Mary Boole

Lesson 30: Young, Peter and Mandelbrot: Fractal Geometry

Lesson 31: M. C. Escher Math and Art

Lesson 32: Mathematics Today

 

 

 



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