Study on Criticism and Alternative on the History of Mathematics Described in the Secondary School Mathematics Textbooks

@inproceedings{Park2015StudyOC,
  title={Study on Criticism and Alternative on the History of Mathematics Described in the Secondary School Mathematics Textbooks},
  author={Jeanam Park and Dong-Gon Jang},
  year={2015}
}
The purpose of this article is to discuss some of the most commonly repeated misconceptions on the history of mathematics described in the secondary school mathematics textbooks, and recommend that we should include mathematical transculture in the secondary school mathematics. School mathematical history described in the texts reflects the axial age, and deals with mathematical transculture from the ancient Greek into Europe excluding the ancient Egypt, Old Babylonia, and Islamic mathematics… 
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