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On the Role of Imagination in the Use of History in Mathematics Education

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Based on an experiment carried out with 10-to 11-year-old pupils, this paper questions the place of imagination in a class activity using the history of mathematics. The study focuses on three groups of pupils who were offered three variants of the same activity based on base-60 counting (our time measurement system inherited from the Babylonians). To identify differences and similarities between the three scenarios, a quantitative analysis, using a Principal Component Analysis (PCA), was carried out on the basis of the pupils' productions and a questionnaire. The approach remains exploratory, but it seems to indicate that imagination plays a relevant role in sessions using history of mathematics.
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hal-03462699 , version 1 (02-12-2021)

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Thomas de Vittori. On the Role of Imagination in the Use of History in Mathematics Education. IEJME, 2021, 16 (3), pp.em0660. ⟨10.29333/iejme/11296⟩. ⟨hal-03462699⟩
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