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Living Math History: Cycle 1 Outline

Please NOTE: Cycle 1, Units 1, 2 and 3 were completed and updated last summer. Unit 4 is being completed for release by this summer, as a homeschooling parent of four children, I focus on the summer for writing projects. See Lesson Plan Information for more details.

Unit 1: Ancients and World Cultures

Lesson 1: Math is Everywhere!

Lesson 2: Ancient Roots of Mathematics in Africa and Mesopotamia

Lesson 3: Ancient Roots of Mathematics in Asia

Lesson 4: Ancient Roots of Mathematics in the Americas

Lesson 5: Thales and
the Egyptians

Lesson 6: Pythagoras
and the Early Greeks

Lesson 7: Archimedes Part 1

Lesson 8: Archimedes Part 2
and Eratosthenes

Unit 2: The Alexandrians and Medieval Math

Lesson 9: The Alexandrians: Heron, Ptolemy, Diophantus, Hypatia

Lesson 10: The Arabs and Algebra: Al-Kwarizmi

Lesson 11: The Indians and Zero: Aryabhata I and Brahmagupta

Lesson 12: The Translators of the Dark Ages and Ockams's Razor

Lesson 13: Fibonacci: Math in Nature

Lesson 14: DaVinci: Math in Art

Lesson 15: Simon Stevin and
Decimal notation

Lesson 16: John Napier

Unit 3: Renaissance to Enlightenment

Lesson 17: Astronomers:
Copernicus

Lesson 18: Astronomers: Kepler

Lesson 19: Astronomers: Galileo

Lesson 20: Galileo’s Physics

Lesson 21: Pascal: Philosophy meets Number Theory

Lesson 22: Isaac Newton
and the new Calculus

Lesson 23: Newton's Physics

Lesson 24: The Unruly Bernoullis

Unit 4: The Modern Age of Mathematics

Lesson 25: Harrison and
Bowditch - Navigational Mathematics

Lesson 26: Euler,
Model Mathematician

Lesson 27: Joseph La Grange

Lesson 28: Sophie Germain

Lesson 29: Carl Frederick Gauss

Lesson 30: Hermite and Galois: Algebra Revitalized

Lesson 31: Emmy Noether, Grace Hopper; Women in mathematics

Lesson 32: Srinivasa Ramanujan; Advanced levels Cantor and Kronecker

Printable Booklists

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Primary Unit 1
           Intermediate Unit 1
        Advanced & HS Unit 1

   Primary Unit 2
      Intermediate Unit 2
      Advanced / HS Unit 2

   Primary Unit 3
       Intermediate Unit 3
       Advanced / HS Unit 3

Primary Unit 4
Intermediate Unit 4
Advanced / HS Unit 4