The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 1 Number 1, 2006

Table of Contents

Editorial
Gert Schubring

Research Papers
Competing Arguments for the Geometry Course: Why Were American High School Students Supposed to Study Geometry in the Twentieth Century?
Gloriana Gonz√°lez and Patricio G. Herbst

The Role of Projective Geometry in Italian Education and Institutions at the End of the 19th Century
Marta Menghini

The Theorem of Thales: A Study of the Naming of Theorems in School Geometry Textbooks
Dimitris Patsopoulos and Tasos Patronis

A Turning Point in Secondary School Mathematics in Brazil: Euclides Roxo and the Mathematics Curricular Reforms of 1931 and 1942
Jo√£o Pitombeira de Carvalho

Notes
Sources for the History of Mathematics Education in Brazil
Gert Schubring

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