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Do We Teach Too Much Mathematics . . . ? References

Author(s): 
Frank J. Swetz (The Pennsylvania State University)

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Smith. D. E. 1958. History of Mathematics. 2 vols. New York: Dover Publications. Reprint.

Swetz, Frank, and Jefferson Hartzler. 1991. Mathematical Modeling in the Secondary School Curriculum. Reston, VA: The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Wilde, Lisa. 2014. ‘Whiche elles shuld farre excelle mans mynde’: Numerical Reason in Robert Recorde’s Ground of Artes (1543). Journal of the Northern Renaissance, http://www.northernrenaissance.org/whiche-elles-shuld-farre-excelle-mans-mynde-numerical-reason-in-robert-recordes-ground-of-artes-1543/.

Frank J. Swetz (The Pennsylvania State University), "Do We Teach Too Much Mathematics . . . ? References," Convergence (June 2019)