Professor M.K. Siu (蕭文強教授)

Articles related to the learning and teaching of mathematics, and history of mathematics:

數學的傳承 ─ 井蛙學算四十年 [Heritage in mathematics ─ Four decades of study on mathematics by a 'frog at the bottom of a well'] (based on Retirement Address given on June 18, 2005.)
《數學教育》十五周年引發的一些回憶 [Some reminiscences on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the magazine EduMath] (preprint in April 2010, published in EduMath, 30 (August 2010), 5-10.)
"Zhi yi xing nan (knowing is easy and doing is difficult)" or vice versa? ─ A Chinese mathematician’s observation on HPM (History and Pedagogy of Mathematics) activities (preprint in April 2011) .
Some Advice to an Undergraduate on the Study of Mathematics (September 2004.)
「三心兩意」的數學教師 [Mathematics teachers with "three hearts and two minds"] (public lecture given at the Open University of Hong Kong on March 13, 2009.)
《心中有數》 [Preface to Mathematics in Mind] (preface of my book published by the Chiu Chang Publishing in May 2009.)
Mathematical experience in school (notes written in April 2010.)
Course YSCN0002 Mathematics: A Cultural Heritage
從離散數學到數學文化 [From discrete mathematics to mathematics and culture] (invited talk at a workshop on discrete mathematics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, August 12, 2008.)
「歐先生」來華四百年 [Mr. Ou (Euclid) in China for four hundred years] (based on a talk given on November 10, 2007 at Institute of Mathematics of Academia Sinica in Taipei.)
1607, A Year of (Some) Significance: Translation of The First European Text in Mathematics -- Elements -- into Chinese (presentation at 6th European Summer University on the History and Epistemology in Mathematics Education, July 2010, Vienna.)
The world of geometry in the classroom: virtual or real? (Plenary talk at 5th ICDM, Crete, April 2008.)
Harmonies in Nature: A dialogue between mathematics and physics (presentation at 5th European Summer University on the History and Epistemology in Mathematics Education, July 2007, Prague.)
Mathematics in Teaching and Teaching of Mathematics (Invited talk at AMC2005, July 2005.)
回到未來 ─ 從大學講堂回到中小學課室 [Back to the future ─ From the university lecture hall to the secondary and primary school classroom] (published in《基礎教育學報》, 16(1), 2007, 97-114.)
Disciplinary mathematics and school mathematics: New/old wine in new/old bottle? (Working paper of Working Group 1 in Centennial Conference of ICMI, March 2008, Rome.)
"Less is more" or "Less is less"?: Undergraduate mathematics education in the era of mass education (published in Themes in Education, 1(2) (2000), 163-171.)
我看「大眾數學」[My view on 'Mathematics for All'] (published in 面向21世紀的中國數學教育 [Mathematics Education in China for the 21st Century], edited by S.J. Yan, Jiangsu Educational Press, 1994, 256-265; reprinted in 數學家談數學教育[Mathematicians' Views on Mathematics Education], Chiu Chang Publishing, 2000.)
Mathematics, mathematics education and the mouse (Invited talk at 3rd ICCM, December 2004; AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, 42 (2008), 861-874; reprinted in Mathematical Medley, 33 (2006), 19-33.)
Why Is It Difficult to Teach Abstract Algebra? (published in Proceedings of the 12th ICMI Study Conference: The Future of the Teaching and Learning of Algebra, ed. H. Chick et al, December 2001, 541-547.)
On the learning and teaching of tertiary algebra (preprint in June 2007.)
Learning and teaching of analysis in the mid 20th century: A semi-personal observation (preprint in October 2000, published in One Hundred Years of L'Enseignement Mathématique: Moments of Mathematics Education in the Twentieth Century, ed. D. Coray et al, L'Enseignement Mathématique, 2003, 179-190.)
(with C.K. Leung and N.Y. Wong) 課程設計上的「古為今用」— 以「截距定理」和「中點定理」為例 ["The past serving the present" in curriculum design: Using the Intercept Theorem and Midpoint Theorem as an example] (preprint in February 2008, published in EduMath, 26 (June 2008), 3-10.)
(with N.Y. Wong) 實驗概率和理論概率的關係 — 中學數學教學如何受益於大學數學 [Relationship between empirical probability and theoretical probability — How would school mathematics teaching benefit from university mathematics?] (preprint in October 2008, published in EduMath, 27 (December 2008), 25-33.)
數學史和數學教育：個人的經驗和看法 [History of mathematics and mathematics education: A personal experience and reflection] (excerpt from an article published in 《數學傳播》[Mathmedia], 16(3), (1992), 23-29.)
Mathematics for math-haters (published in International Journal for Mathematical Education in Science & Technology, 8(1)(1977), 17-21.)
The ABCD of using history of mathematics in the (undergraduate) classroom (published in Bulletin of the Hong Kong Mathematical Society, 1(1997), 143-154; reprinted in Using History to Teach Mathematics: An International Perspective, ed. V. Katz, Mathematical Association of America, 2000, 3-9.)
(with C. Tzanakis) History of Mathematics in Classroom Teaching ─ Appetizer? Main Course? Or Dessert? (excerpt from an article published in Mediterranean Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 3(1-2), (2004), v–x.)
"No, I don't use history of mathematics in my class. Why?" (preprint in October 2005, based on a talk given at the HPM Satellite Conference of ICME 2004, July 2004; published in Proceedings of HPM2004 & ESU4, ed. F. Furinghetti et al, Uppsala Universitet, 2006, 268-277.)
Some Useful References For MATH2001
"Algorithmic Mathematics" and "Dialectic Mathematics": The "Yin" and "Yang" in mathematics education (preprint in August 2003)
《數學證明》的寫作經過 [Writing the book Mathematical Proofs] (prefaces to Mathematical Proofs, original edition in 1990 and updated edition in 2007/2008.)
Proof and pedagogy in ancient China: Examples from Liu Hui's Commentary on Jiu Zhang Suan Shu (published in Educational Studies in Mathematics, 24 (1993), 345-357.)
Proof as a practice of mathematical pursuit in a cultural, socio-political and intellectual context (preprint in February 2008.)
Proofs within the western and the eastern cultural traditions and implications for mathematics education (presentation in a plenary panel, 19th ICMI Study, Taipei, May 2009)
Official Curriculum in Mathematics in Ancient China: How Did Candidates Study for the Examination? (preprint in August 2003, published as a chapter in How Chinese Learn Mathematics: Perspective From Insiders, ed. N.Y. Wong et al, World Scientific, 2004, 157-185.)
Mathematics education in East Asia from antiquity to modern times (text of an invited presentation at the Conference on On-going Research in the History of Mathematics Education, Gardabaer (Iceland), in June 2009)
(with Y.C. Chan) Facing the change and meeting the challenge : Mathematics education in China in the second half of the nineteenth century (preprint, September 2011)
Success and failure of Xu Guang-qi: Response to the first dissemination of European science in Ming China (text of an invited presentation at the Symposium on Asian Response to the Dissemination of European Science held at the 19th International Congress of History of Science, Zaragoza (Spain), in August 1993; published in Studies in History of Medicine & Science, Vol.14, no.1-2, New Series (1995/96), 137-179.)
Eulogy of Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829) (text of eulogy of Abel read before his tomb at Froland on August 10, 1988.)
Eulogy of Leonhard Euler (1707 – 1783) with a Chinese translation (text of eulogy of Euler read before his tomb at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery Cemetery in St. Petersburg on July 3, 2007.)
Some reminiscences of my undergraduate years in the HKU Faculty of Science (text written on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the HKU Faculty of Science, August, 2009.)
Professor Y.C. Wong – Four decades as my mentor, colleague and friend (text of a presentation at the Symposium Six Decades as a Mathematician: On the 90th Birthday of Professor Yung-Chow Wong, May 31, 2003.)
數學與我何干 ? [What has mathematics to do with me?] (preprint in October 2007.)
數學才華 ─ 以平常之心看待「平庸」[Mathematical Talent ─ Looking at "mediocrity" with an ordinary mind] (Article in the house programme of Proof staged by the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre in July 2005.)
《平面國》譯本弁言 [Foreword to translation of Flatland] (text written in December 2011.)

Last updated: December 30, 2011