Computations and Computing Devices in Mathematics Education Before the Advent of Electronic Calculators

Chapter 1 History of Computations, Computing Devices, and Mathematics Education from the Teaching and Learning Perspective: Looking for New Paths of Investigation

Chapter 2 Computation in Early Mesopotamia

Chapter 3 Computational Techniques and Computational Aids in Ancient Mesopotamia

Chapter 4 Interpreting Tables of the Arithmetical Introduction of Nicomachus Through Pachymeres’ Treatment of Arithmetic: Preliminary Observations

Chapter 5 The So-Called “Dust Computations” in the Līlāvatī

Chapter 6 Reading Algorithms in Sanskrit: How to Relate Rule of Three, Choice of Unknown, and Linear Equation?

Chapter 7 Chinese Counting Rods: Their History, Arithmetic Operations, and Didactic Repercussions

Chapter 8 Interpreting Algorithms Written in Chinese and Attempting the Reconstitution of Tabular Setting: Some Elements of Comparative History

Chapter 9 Same Rods, Same Calculation? Contextualizing Computations in Early Eighteenth-Century Korea

Chapter 11 Teaching Computation in 19th-Century Japan: The Transition from Individual Coaching on Traditional Devices at the End of the Edo Period (1600–1868) to Lectures on Western Mathematics During the Meiji Period (1868–1912)

Chapter 12 Counting Devices in Russia

Chapter 13 A Short History of Computing Devices from Schickard to de Colmar: Emergence and Evolution of Ingenious Ideas and Technologies as Precursors of Modern Computer Technology

Chapter 14 Computation Computation Devices in Nineteenth-Century Mathematics Instruction in Europe

Chapter 15 Toward a History of the Teaching of Calculation in Russia

Chapter 16 The Unsettling Playfulness of Computing

Chapter 17 Calculating Aids in Mathematics Education Before the Advent of Electronic Calculators: Didactical and Technological Prospects