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Alvarez, Josefina – Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, 1997
Explains mathematics appreciation and how to teach a basic course in it. Shares experiences teaching mathematics appreciation. (Contains 43 resource materials.) (ASK)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Mathematics Instruction, Nonmajors
Singer, Stephanie F. – Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, 1994
Discusses the importance of providing concrete examples of successful activities and assignments in designing a mathematics course for a general audience. Presents a course entitled The Language of Mathematics. (ASK)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Curriculum
Gulati, Shobha – Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, 1994
Describes a course that focuses on the struggles of women through the centuries to get education, and how much women in the United States have achieved in the last 100 years. Contains 58 references. (ASK)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
Ness, Harald M. – Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, 1990
Discusses the place of mathematics in culture as a vast body of knowledge that is an integral part of culture, not a set of skills to solve mundane problems. Presents information on a course whose aim is to develop mathematically significant relationships and an appreciation of mathematics as part of culture. Presents a 52-item bibliography and…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Cultural Context, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnomathematics
Berken, Bernadette Anne – Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, 1996
Discusses the need for a college course on multicultural mathematics. Provides information about the course, examining mathematics within various cultural settings both past and present. (ASK)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Junior High Schools, Mathematics Instruction
Marion, Bill – Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, 1999
Offers some idea of what it is like for an outsider to the humanities disciplines to teach such a course. Discusses what made the experience worthwhile and the difficulties and issues of teaching mathematics humanistically. (ASK)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Humanistic Education
Dewar, Jacqueline M. – Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, 1991
Describes a core course in a women's-studies program at Loyola Marymount University. Provides information, resources, and an annotated bibliography useful for making students more aware of women's contributions to mathematics. Contains 38 references. (ASK)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Resources, Females, Higher Education
Gura, Ein-ya – Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, 1998
Describes a high school course created so that it is constructed of four topics dissimilar in character and bearing little mathematical relation to each other, does not demand specific prerequisite knowledge in mathematics, and provides general knowledge of game theory and its concerns. Studies students' grades and attitudes toward the course.…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Game Theory, High Schools, Mathematics Curriculum
Leganza, Krystina K. – Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, 1995
Discusses the place of writing in mathematics classes. Presents three specific writing assignments designed for and used in a college abstract algebra course. (ASK)
Descriptors: Algebra, College Mathematics, Course Descriptions, Higher Education
