Course Reflection

 We looked at Babylonian, Ancient Egyptian, Russian, Greek, Maya, Islamic and Indian Mathematics. One key takeaway for me in this course was recognizing the importance of integrating Math history into my classes because it shows students how Math is part of human history and people all around the word have made math discoveries - sometimes coming to similar discoveries without ever communicating. I think learning concepts in the context of how they were developed could be a great activity for students because it helps them see the inquiry process of math. Another key takeaway was that Math has been taught from a very euro-centric perspective and this means our disciplinary language can be racist in the sense that it highlights only the discoveries from white people. I didn't know about many of the mathematicians we learned about and how many concepts were developed before Greek mathematicians arrived at the ideas, yet we know them by the Greek names. I want to highlight a variety of mathematicians in my classroom. I had a lot of fun with my final project. I think I would have enjoyed spending more time looking at specific high school content and how we could incorporate math history into various lessons.