Author: John Iliff WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The History of Christ's Hospital
Author: John Iliff WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, James Hodgson, and the Beginnings of Secondary School Mathematics
Author: Nerida F. EllertonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319466577
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This book tells one of the greatest stories in the history of school mathematics. Two of the names in the title—Samuel Pepys and Isaac Newton—need no introduction, and this book draws attention to their special contributions to the history of school mathematics. According to Ellerton and Clements, during the last quarter of the seventeenth century Pepys and Newton were key players in defining what school mathematics beyond arithmetic and elementary geometry might look like. The scene at which most of the action occurred was Christ’s Hospital, which was a school, ostensibly for the poor, in central London. The Royal Mathematical School (RMS) was established at Christ’s Hospital in 1673. It was the less well-known James Hodgson, a fine mathematician and RMS master between 1709 and 1755, who demonstrated that topics such as logarithms, plane and spherical trigonometry, and the application of these to navigation, might systematically and successfully be taught to 12- to 16-year-old school children. From a wider history-of-school-education perspective, this book tells how the world’s first secondary-school mathematics program was created and how, slowly but surely, what was being achieved at RMS began to influence school mathematics in other parts of Great Britain, Europe, and America. The book has been written from the perspective of the history of school mathematics. Ellerton and Clements’s analyses of pertinent literature and of archival data, and their interpretations of those analyses, have led them to conclude that RMS was the first major school in the world to teach mathematics-beyond-arithmetic, on a systematic basis, to students aged between 12 and 16. Throughout the book, Ellerton and Clements examine issues through the lens of a lag-time theoretical perspective. From a historiographical perspective, this book emphasizes how the history of RMS can be portrayed in very different ways, depending on the vantage point from which the history is written. The authors write from the vantage point of international developments in school mathematics education and, therefore, their history of RMS differs from all other histories of RMS, most of which were written from the perspective of the history of Christ’s Hospital.
The New Edinburgh Review
Author: Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112113992587 and Others
Author: Catalogue of the Guildhall Library of the City of London
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany
Author: The Scots Magazine ...
Author: The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London. Instituted in the Year 1824: M-Z and additions to June, 1889
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Catalogue of Autographs, Etc
Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description