SAN JOSE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

San Jose Malilipot Albay

SYLLABUS IN HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS

School Year 2022-2023

Department: Education Department Program: BSED Major in Mathematics

Course Code: MC MATH 01 Credit Unit: 3

Class days and class time: Prerequisite: None

Instructor: ERICA L. CANON

Course Description

The course presents the humanistic aspects of mathematics which provides the historical context and timeline that led to the present
understanding and applications of the different branches of mathematics.
 VISION

Provide students a better future through quality education

MISSION

Transform students through a sound academic education with a distinct commitment and
aspiration to enhance manpower capabilities to a continuing human resources
development.

GOALS

 Provides quality post-secondary and tertiary education that is relevant and responsive to the needs of the community and the world of
work.
 Enhances manpower capabilities through a continuing human resources development.
 Provides an environment conducive to learning and research.
 Establishes and strengthens linkages among local officials, clients and stakeholders.
 Course Outline:
Instructional Assessment Time
Specific Learning Outcomes Learning Content Instructional Delivery
Resources Tasks/Outputs Allotment
At the end of this course,
students should be able to:

SJCC VMGO Student Manual 1h

 Be familiar with the Introduction

chronological recorded
number systems to the  Egypt Number ● teacher discussion  Learning  Scheduled
modern era and their System of Egyptian 2/n through recorded video Modules quizzes
works table ● student and teacher  Worksheets  Individual
interaction through any  Laptop Outputs
 Mesopotamia: paltform  Internet 3h
sexagesimal (base ● video links websites
60) system ● recitations  PowerPoint
-Babylonian ● learning assessment
Reciprocal Table individual/group
-Plimpton 322 tablet exercises

 Appreciate Euclid’s work Euclid’s Elements

of Elements
 Book I: Basic plane ● teacher discussion  Learning  Scheduled 6h
geometry through through recorded video Modules quizzes
Pythagorean ● student and teacher  Worksheets  Individual
theorem interaction through any  Laptop Output
paltform  Internet  Reflection
 Book II: Geometric ● video links websites paper
algebra and related ● recitations  PowerPoint
constructions ● learning assessment
individual/group
 Book III:
 Intermediate plane exercises
geometry and study
of circles

 Book IV:
Constructions of
regular polygons

 Book V: The theory

of ratio and
proportions of
magnitudes

 Book VI: Similar

plane figures

 Book VII-IX: Number

theory

 Book X: The theory

of irrational
magnitudes

 Books XI-XIII: Solid

Geometry, the
method of
exhaustion and
constructions of
regular polyhedral
PRELIM EXAMINATION 1.5h

 Trace several The Beginnings of  teacher  Learning

fundamental problems Mathematics in Greece: discussion Modules
through hundreds, through recorded  Worksheets  Scheduled
 sometimes thousands of  The earliest Greek video  Laptop quizzes
years development mathematics:  student and  Internet  Individual
various Greek teacher websites Outputs 6h
numerals, Thales, interaction  PowerPoint
Pythagoras and the through any
Pythagoreans, paltform
difficult construction  video links
problems  recitations
 Plato and Aristotle:  learning
logic, magnitudes assessment
Zeno’s paradoxes  individual/group
exercises
 Demonstrate Archimedes  Learning  Scheduled
understandings of ● teacher discussion Modules quizzes
meaningful knowledge of  The law of lever, through recorded video  Worksheets  Individual 3h
the beginnings of approximation of pi ● video links  Laptop Outputs
Mathematics and sums of series ● recitations  Internet
 Rational ● learning assessment websites
Approximations individual/group  PowerPoint
exercises

 Be familiar with the Mathematical methods in  Scheduled

pedagogical aspects of Hellenistic times  Learning quizzes
historical approach to Modules  Individual 3h
mathematics  Astronomy before ● teacher discussion  Worksheets Outputs
Ptolemy, Cosmology through recorded video  Laptop
and Astronomy ● video links  Internet
 Early Trigonometry ● recitations websites
(history) ● learning assessment  PowerPoint
 Ptolemy and the individual/group
Almagest exercises
 Practical
mathematics, Heron,
Ptolemy’s
 Geography
1.5 h
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
 Compare Ancient from Ancient and medieval
Medieval China China
6h
 Number symbols,
rod numerals and ● teacher discussion  Learning  Scheduled
fractions through recorded video Modules quizzes
 Geometry: areas ● video links  Worksheets  Individual
and volumes, ● recitations  Laptop Outputs
Pythagorean ● learning assessment  Internet
theorem and similar individual/group websites
triangles exercises  PowerPoint
 Algebra:
Simultaneous linear
equations, arithmetic
triangle, solving
polynomial
 Intermediate
analysis and the
Chinese remainder
theorem

 Compare Ancient from Ancient and Medieval  Learning  Scheduled

Medieval India India ● teacher discussion Modules quizzes
through recorded video  Worksheets  Individual 3h
 The Hindu-Arabic ● video links  Laptop Outputs
place value system ● recitations  Internet
and arithmetic ● learning assessment websites
 Geometry individual/group  PowerPoint
 Equations and exercises
intermediate
analysis
  Combinatorics,
trigonometry

 Appreciate the The Mathematics of Islam  Learning  Scheduled

contributions of Islam to ● teacher discussion Modules quizzes
Mathematics  Decimal Arithmetic through recorded video  Worksheets  Individual 3h
 Algebra: quadratic ● video links  Laptop Outputs
equations, powers of ● recitations  Internet
the unknown, ● learning assessment websites
arithmetic triangle, individual/group  PowerPoint
cubic equations exercises
 Combinatorics
 Geometry: parallel
postulate,
trigonometry

 Be familiar with the details Mathematic in the  teacher  Learning  Scheduled

of study of many medieval Europe discussion Modules quizzes
challenging classical through recorded  Worksheets  Individual
problems  Translations from video  Laptop Outputs
Arabic into Latin in  student and  Internet 3h
the 12 and 13 teacher websites
Centuries interaction  PowerPoint
 Summary of early through any
mathematics in paltform
western Europe  video links
 Combinatorics  recitations
 The mathematics of  learning
kinematics: velocity, assessment
the Merton theorem,  individual/group
Oresme’s exercises
fundamental
theorem of calculus
 Enumerate Italian Algebra in the  teacher  Learning  Scheduled
Abacists (Renaissance) Renaissance discussion Modules quizzes
through recorded  Worksheets  Individual
 The Italian abacists, video  Laptop Outputs
algebra in France,  student and  Internet 2h
Germany, England teacher websites
and Portugal interaction  PowerPoint
 The solution of the through any
cubic equation paltform
 Early development  video links
of symbolic algebra:  recitations
Viète and Stevin  learning
assessment
 individual/group
exercises
 Appreciate Geometrical Geometry, algebra and  teacher  Learning  Scheduled
and Algebraic works probability in the discussion Modules quizzes
seventeenth century through recorded  Worksheets  Individual
video  Laptop Outputs
 The theory of  student and  Internet 3h
equations teacher websites
 Analytic geometry: interaction  PowerPoint
coordinates, through any
equations of curves paltform
 Elementary  video links
probability  recitations
 Number theory  learning
 Projective gemetry assessment
 individual/group
exercises
PREFINAL EXAMINATION 1.5h

 Give some example The beginnings of  teacher  Learning  Scheduled

problems where calculus discussion Modules quizzes
can be used. calculus through recorded  Worksheets  Individual 3h
video  Laptop Outputs
 Tangents and  student and  Internet
extrema, areas and teacher websites
volumes, power interaction  PowerPoint
series, rectification through any
of curves and the paltform
fundamental  video links
theorem of calculus  recitations
 learning
assessment
 individual/group
exercises
Newton and Leibniz  teacher  Learning  Scheduled
discussion Modules quizzes
 Isaac Newton , through recorded  Worksheets  Individual 3h
Gottfried Leibniz and video  Laptop Outputs
the first calculus  student and  Internet
texts teacher websites
interaction  PowerPoint
through any
paltform
 video links
 recitations

FINAL EXAMINATION 1.5h

Course Requirements:

 Active participation in all class activities.

 Submission of requirements on time.
 Pass major exams (Term Exams)

Course Assessment:

Long Examinations - 40%

Quizzes/Prob Sets/Solutions to Worksheets - 20%
Midterm and Finals - 40%
100%

Course Policies:

1. All announcements will be made at the beginning of lecture. This will include schedules for the next lecture, tasks and consultations.
2. The teacher reserves the right to make changes to the syllabus/policies of the course and inform students as needed regarding such
changes.
3. The students are responsible for knowing the content of any announcements from the teacher.
4. Completion of all requirements of the course will be the basis for the grades at the end of the semester.
5. It is expected that every student will observed honesty and courtesy toward the teacher and their co-students.

References:

Katz, V. (2009) Histor of Mathematics, An introduction; (3 rd Edition) Addison-Wesley

https://www.storyofmathematics.com/
 Prepared by: Noted:

ERICA L. CANON MA. ISABEL P. GABITO, Ed.D

Instructor Dean, College of Education

Approved:

TERESA G. BUSTAMANTE, Ed.D

College President