tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post4348017212638331064..comments2024-03-16T12:33:09.741-05:00Comments on <center>Landscape Plotted and Pieced</center>: Wednesdays with Words: Beauty for Truth's Sake 2Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618197716777772631noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-16673483833129376492014-08-27T11:03:00.046-05:002014-08-27T11:03:00.046-05:00So far, my favorite one for my own use is the the ...So far, my favorite one for my own use is the the fat gold on the bottom of the left-hand stack. That one's A History of Mathematics by Merzbach and Boyer.<br /><br />For teaching math to my own kids, I'm combining what I've learned from Ruth Beechick's Easy Start in Arithmetic and Liping Ma's Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics with Horace Grant's Arithmetic for Young Children and his Second Stage of Arithmetic. Plus we're using the Life of Fred books, kind of for fun. So I don't really have a favorite book in that category, because I haven't found anything that really works the way I want it to.<br /><br />I have three picture books there -- How We Know the Earth is Round, and two you can't see in the picture, The History of Counting, and The Librarian who Measured the Earth. I love all three of those and there are some others I'd like to have, too. This kind of thing is really important for understanding math in the history of culture and ideas, as Caldecott suggested in Chapter one of his book. Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16618197716777772631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-74945834233559938712014-08-27T10:37:42.377-05:002014-08-27T10:37:42.377-05:00Yes, I was going to say yours and Dawn's quote...Yes, I was going to say yours and Dawn's quotes are all of a piece. :)<br /><br />I love your shelfie! Wow, a collection of math books....that's a category I could stand to expand. What are your favorites there?Mystiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15489205990532734556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-26940898274724407802014-08-27T09:18:52.425-05:002014-08-27T09:18:52.425-05:00I had just finished reading The Liberal Arts Tradi...I had just finished reading The Liberal Arts Tradition when I read this chapter, and that's the thing that hit me hardest in TLAT -- that what I'd been thinking of as the <i>content</i> of a liberal arts education was actually the <i>foundation</i>! And that I'd been missing a huge part of it, thinking it was one of my personal preferences, not something FOUNDATIONAL that I really ought to have been nurturing my children in.<br /><br />Blows my mind.Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16618197716777772631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-90950904482665323312014-08-27T09:11:39.041-05:002014-08-27T09:11:39.041-05:00Wow, my quote lines up perfectly with yours ... yo...Wow, my quote lines up perfectly with yours ... your quotes expand and emphasize the ideas of the arts being a firm foundation for the rest of learning. I love it. dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17987916970944867015noreply@blogger.com