Nathalie Sinclair Distinguished University Professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University Nathalie Sinclair is Distinguished University Professor at Simon Fraser University, in the Faculty of Education. She is co-editor of Mathematics and the aesthetic: New approaches to an ancient affinity and What is a mathematical concept?. She has also led the development of two multi-touch apps for arithmetic learning, called TouchCounts and TouchTimes. Participant In: Permanence and Impermanence of Mathematical Concepts October 21st, 2023 at 2:30pm EST Past Event Watch the video » What do you think of when you think of the number five? Do you think of symbol like 5, a pattern like ⁙, or the fifth item on a list? Today, the concept of number is fixed and eternal, unlinked to anything in the universe. But history shows that mathematics is anything but fixed. In… read more »
Permanence and Impermanence of Mathematical Concepts October 21st, 2023 at 2:30pm EST Past Event Watch the video » What do you think of when you think of the number five? Do you think of symbol like 5, a pattern like ⁙, or the fifth item on a list? Today, the concept of number is fixed and eternal, unlinked to anything in the universe. But history shows that mathematics is anything but fixed. In… read more »