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ERIC Number: EJ504004
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-1072-0839
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Now & Then: Roger Whitmore, Police Officer.
Barnes, Sue; Michalowicz, Karen Dee
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, v1 n4 p290-95 Jan-Mar 1995
Discusses police officers' use of mathematics when reconstructing an accident scene; and the history of algebra, including al-Khwarizmi's works on the theory of equations, the Rhind Papyrus, a Chinese and an Indian manuscript on systems of linear and quadratic equations, and Diophantus'"syncopated algebra." (10 references) (EK)
Descriptors: Algebra, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Junior High Schools, Mathematical Applications, Mathematical Enrichment, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Middle Schools, Police, Worksheets
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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