'In these numbers we use no fractions': A Classroom Module on Stevin's Decimal Fractions - About the Author and Bibliography

About the Author

Kathleen M. Clark is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at The Florida State University. Her research interests include: the impact of the study of history of mathematics on teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching, the ways in which teachers use history in the teaching of mathematics, and the practices and development of mathematics teacher educators. In 2009, she joined Clemency Montelle at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ) as a visiting researcher in the history of mathematics.

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Sarton, G. (1935). The first explanation of decimal fractions and measures (1585). Together with a history of the decimal idea and a facsimile (No. XVII) of Stevin’s Disme. Isis, 23(1), 153 – 244.

Schultz, P. (2000). Lecture 11: Simon Stevin’s introduction of decimals. Retrieved on July 31, 2009 from http://school.maths.uwa.edu.au/~schultz/3M3/L11Stevin.html

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Wilson, P. S., & Chauvot, J. B. (2000). Who? How? What? A strategy for using history to teach mathematics. Mathematics Teacher, 93(8), 642 – 645.