A sample study for classroom teachers addressing the importance of utilizing history of math in math education

Abstract

It is aimed to present a sample study on increasing the comprehensibility and retainability of subjects by utilizing history of math which is very important but also ignored in the curriculum. The perception of math as an abstract course causes anxiety in primary school children. Elimination of this problem is possible, especially with the method of application of classroom teachers in accordance with the methods that are optimum to students level, and they attract attention to their cause-effect relationships in nature must be capable of understanding. Utilizing from history of mathematics is the best way to take advantage of this. So that the students in fact the cause of their operations and that the issue of who or who were proved how they think, how our lives have a significance of that would be understood. And get rid of these anxiety, the class met and more willing, as well as of course will be more successful. The replication of these studies is important to include the new historians of mathematics also from our country. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.