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Front MatterSource: For the Learning of Mathematics, Vol. 11, No. 2, Special Issue on History inMathematics Education (Jun., 1991)Published by: FLM Publishing AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40248008 .

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EDITOR DAVID WHEELER

Faculty of Education Simon Fraser University Vancouver, B.C., Canada

ADVISORY BOARD ALAN W. BELL

Nottingham, U.K.

GEORGE BOOKER

Brisbane, Australia

STEPHEN I. BROWN

Buffalo, U.S.A.

A.J. (Sandy) DAWSON

Vancouver, Canada

JACK EASLEY

Urbana, U.S.A.

CLAUDE GAULIN

Québec, Canada

DAVID HAWKINS

Boulder, U.S.A.

WILLIAM C. HIGGINSON

Kingston, Canada

JOEL HILLEL

Montreal, Canada

THOMAS E. KIEREN

Edmonton, Canada

JEREMY KILPATRICK Athens, U.S.A.

COLETTE LABORDE

Grenoble, France

LESLEY LEE

Montreal, Canada

JOHN H. MASON Milton Keynes, U.K.

PEARLA NESHER

Haifa, Israel

DAVID PIMM Milton Keynes, U.K.

DAVID F. ROBITAILLE Vancouver, Canada

ANNA SIERPINSKA Montreal, Canada

DICK TAHTA Alton Barnes, U.K.

DAVID O. TALL

Warwick, U.K.

MARION WALTER

Eugene, U.S.A.

The journal aims to stimulate reflection on and study of the practices and theories of mathematics education at all levels; to

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for the learning of __ ___. K+* 1 lOllwO WHITE ROCK, B.C., CANADA an international journal of mathematics education

Volume 11, number 2

Special Issue on History in Mathematics Education edited by John Fauvel

EDITORIAL 2

JOHN FAUVEL

Using history in mathematics education 3

STEVE RUSS, PETER RANSOM, PATRICIA PERKINS, EVELYNE BARBIN, ABRAHAM ARCAVI, GARY BROWN, DAVID FOWLER

The experience of history in mathematics education 7

J. HELEN GARDNER "How fast does the wind travel?'9: history in the primary mathematics classroom 1 7

RON OFIR Historical happenings in the mathematics classroom 2 1

LUTZ FUHRER Historical stories in the mathematics classroom 24

CLAUDIA ZASLAVSKY World cultures in the mathematics class 32

YANNIS THOMAIDIS Historical digressions in Greek geometry lessons 37

JAN VAN MAANEN

L'Hôpital's weight problem 44

LEO ROGERS

History of mathematics: resources for teachers 48

CONTRIBUTORS 52

The text on the front cover is taken from page 5

of John Fauvel's article. ISSN 0228-0671

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