[Maths-Education] Re: References about the history of the symbol m for gradient of line
maths-education@nottingham.ac.uk
maths-education@nottingham.ac.uk
Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:51:17 +0200
Dear members
I was working with a group of high school teachers generating a concept for
Functions, and one of them asked the group on the origin of the use of m as the
gradient of a line. The assumption was that we can predict that c is from the
word constant. Almost all our sessions on mathematics teaching have a bias
towards history.
Thank you in anticipation
Mthunzi Nxawe
Rhodes University Mathematics Education Project
PO Box 94
Grahamstown
6140