Chapter 13

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G49. Investigate the topic of conic sections. Build models and/or find three-dimensional models for the conic sections. What did the Greeks know of the conic sections?

G50. Prepare a list of women mathematicians from the history of mathematics. Answer the question, "Why were so few mathematicians female?"

References

Teri Perl, Math Equals: Biographies of Women Mathematicians plus Related Activities. (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1978).
Loretta Kelley, "Why Were So Few Mathematicians Female?" The Mathematics Teacher, October 1996. cBarbara Sicherman and Carol H. Green, eds. Notable American Women: The Modern Period. A Biographical Dictionary. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1980).
Outstanding Women in Mathematics and Science (National Women's History Project, Windsor, CA 95492, 1991).

G51. Prepare a list of black mathematicians from the history of mathematics.

References

Virginia Newell et al., eds. Black Mathematicians and Their Works (Ardmore, PA: Dorrance & Company, 1980).

G52. Prepare a list of mathematicians with the first name of Karl.

G53. Write a news article about a historical mathematician as if you were a contemporary of the person you are writing about. Put it in newspaper style and include other newsworthy items from the period.