Gender and Technology: A Case of Graphics Calculators in the Singaporean Mathematics Curriculum Context

This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de siècle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-century debates concerning issues such as gender and sexuality, evolution and degeneration, science, empire and modernity. While the New Woman is located in the debates concerning the ‘crisis in gender’ or ‘sexual anarchy’ of the time, the period also saw an upsurge of new technologies of communication, transport and medicine. This book explores the interlinking of gender and technology in writings by overlooked authors such as Grant Allen, Tom Gallon, H. G. Wells, Margaret Todd and Mathias McDonnell Bodkin. As the book demonstrates, literature of the time is inevitably caught up in a technological modernity: technologies such as the typewriter, the bicycle, and medical technologies, through literary texts come to work as freedom machines, as harbingers of female emancipation.

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On the reform of mathematics curriculum in Senior High School

Theoretical Mathematics Study ◽

10.35534/tms.0101002c ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 9-13

Author(s):

Han Qingxin ◽

Qiu Cheng

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Mathematics Curriculum ◽

Senior High School

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Changes in the Levels of Cognitive Demand in Textbook Tasks before and after 2015 Revision of Mathematics Curriculum

Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction ◽

10.22251/jlcci.2020.20.7.833 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (7) ◽

pp. 833-856

Author(s):

Hye Yun Jung ◽

Kyeong Hwa Lee

Keyword(s):

Mathematics Curriculum ◽

Cognitive Demand ◽

Before And After

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Celestial Tapestry

10.1093/oso/9780198851950.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Nicholas Mee

Keyword(s):

Mathematics Curriculum ◽

Dimensional Space ◽

Golden Section ◽

Single Point ◽

Historical Context ◽

Computer Art ◽

Lightning Strike ◽

Secret Message ◽

Axiomatic Method ◽

Higher Dimensional

Celestial Tapestry places mathematics within a vibrant cultural and historical context, highlighting links to the visual arts and design, and broader areas of artistic creativity. Threads are woven together telling of surprising influences that have passed between the arts and mathematics. The story involves many intriguing characters: Gaston Julia, who laid the foundations for fractals and computer art while recovering in hospital after suffering serious injury in the First World War; Charles Howard, Hinton who was imprisoned for bigamy but whose books had a huge influence on twentieth-century art; Michael Scott, the Scottish necromancer who was the dedicatee of Fibonacci’s Book of Calculation, the most important medieval book of mathematics; Richard of Wallingford, the pioneer clockmaker who suffered from leprosy and who never recovered from a lightning strike on his bedchamber; Alicia Stott Boole, the Victorian housewife who amazed mathematicians with her intuition for higher-dimensional space. The book includes more than 200 colour illustrations, puzzles to engage the reader, and many remarkable tales: the secret message in Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors; the link between Viking runes, a Milanese banking dynasty, and modern sculpture; the connection between astrology, religion, and the Apocalypse; binary numbers and the I Ching. It also explains topics on the school mathematics curriculum: algorithms; arithmetic progressions; combinations and permutations; number sequences; the axiomatic method; geometrical proof; tessellations and polyhedra, as well as many essential topics for arts and humanities students: single-point perspective; fractals; computer art; the golden section; the higher-dimensional inspiration behind modern art.

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