Wikipedia & iTunes U.

Link to the Textbook entry on Wikipedia

Wikibooks - open content textbook collection that anyone can edit

Wes proposed that the textbook for any course would/could/should be the link to Wikipedia.

iTunes U. - learn anything, anywhere, anytime

Introducing fractions in Magnitskii's Arithmetics in the early 18th century in Russia

Since 2004, we work with my colleague Alex Volkov, on exploring didactical value of mathematics textbooks, old and modern ones. We look at conceptual approaches that authors represent in their books. Our latest publication for the ICME-12 is now awailable online:  http://www.icme12.org/upload/UpFile2/TSG/0703.pdf
We look at fractions in the first Russian arithmetics textbook written by Magnitskii in the beginning of the 18th century. While some authors point at the origins of the book from earlier European medieval texts, others claim original didactical ideas of introducing concept of fraction. The paper belong to the TSG35 on the History of mathematics teaching and learning and there are other interesting contibutions on textbooks development.

 

Peter Taylor's publications and textbooks available online

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Peter Taylor, Queen's University, publications

Math teachers & students making their own (online) textbooks

Using the ibooks ipad app to make a math textbook

Recent posting from Tim Pelton, University of Victoria on the BC Association of Math Teachers listserv.

Newspaper article on iBooks & textbook writing and publishing online

Stewart Calculus

Wes has a love/hate relationship with this one. Stewart Calculus - chapters and resources are on this site.

Social/Propaganda uses of Mathematics Textbooks

Example 1: Nazi Math Textbooks

Ethics in Education
Facing History and Ourselves
Christopher Wagner
Post Holocaust Science Education

Example 2: Numerist Propaganda

The Math Skeptic

Example 3: Selected Scans of Pages from Chinese Cultural Revolution

Propaganda or propaganda for anti-Maoists? (May 23 entry)

Isn't everything propaganda/ideology???

Appelbaum, "Target: Number"

More on the use of texts historically in math education

Teaching Mathematics with Historical Documents

Rewriting the early history of mathematics education in North America - ("...published histories relating to the teaching and learning of mathematics in the North American colonies, and during the first 75 years of the United States of America, have over-emphasized the role of printed textbooks.")

A brief history of CEMREL - aesthetic education program in mathematics curriculum development

1910 Review of three studies of  arithmetic: The teaching of Arithmetic by David Eugene Smith; Arithmetical Abilities and Some Factors Determining Them, by Cliff Winfield Stone; and Manual of Instruction for Giving and Scoring the Courtis Standard Tests in Arithmetifc, by S.A. Courtis. (Journal of Educational Psychology, 1 (10), 1910)

Eric Love & David Pimm, 'This is so' : a text on texts

Textbooks from other times & places/ Manuels scolaires dailleurs et d'autrefois

•Sample pages from Robert Recorde's The Grounde of Artes (1632), one of the first mathematics 'textbooks' in English

•Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Witte (full text)

•Swetz & Katz Mathematical Treasures online catalogue of historical math books

•Cover of the English edition of Legendre (1825) Elements of Geometry

•Wentworth (US, 1894) First Steps in Algebra
•Boyden (US, 1895) A First Book in Algebra
•Rivenburg (1914, US) A Review of Algebra

•Common & Foreign Exchange Arithmetic (Canada, Shaw Schools, 1920s?)

•Social Arithmetic selections part 1 (US, 1926)
•Social Arithmetic selections part 2 (US, 1926)

•A mathematics (and other) textbook from Franco's Spain, 1954: Enciclopedia Practica del Parvulo
•From Spain (year?): Problemas Salvatella

•Cover and table of contents from a New Math parents' guide, US, 1964
• Modern Algebra and Trigonometry part 2 (Dolciani et al, US,1963).
• La mathématique...renouvellée (Hamel & Lunkenbein, Montréal 1972)

•Mathematics: A Human Endeavor (Harold R. Jacobs, US, 1970) part 1
• Part 2

• Mathquest 8 (Addison-Wesley publishers, Canada, 1988)

•Mathématèque 5 (Montréal 1991)

•Math that matters (Stocker, 2006, Toronto)
• Precalculus 11 (McGraw Hill Ryerson publishers, Canada, 2011)