
Philosophy of High School Math: A conversation with Violeta Kristof, Rivkah Schack, Laura Mazer, Joseph Perlman, and Steven Gaudin0
Philosophy of Education
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The History of Mathematics - The Science of Patterns by Keith Dullin
The history of mathematics is very powerful. Even just understanding the kind of motum motives and the problems that people were concerned with analyzing, i still think is the best introduction to grap theory. The bridges of conigsburg problem was essentially an elaborate word problem. Nobody working on grat theory knew in 17 hundred that like it would be usefur like gol maps and facebook and yo. Spent a billion dollar search ogarisms,. But i don't think the best way to introduce gra theory is through those applications. Lik ets, though, the bridges of conniksberg problem and that kind of thing is an instance were i think that captures a lot of what we've been talking
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