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• On an international training of mathematically talented students: assets of the 20 years of the “Nagy Károly Mathematical Student-meetings”

  77-89

  Sándor Kántor

  Tünde Kántor

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  33

  The focus of this paper is to present the gems of the "Nagy Károly Mathematical Student-meetings" in Rév-Komárom (Slovakia) from 1991 to 2010. During these 20 years there was done a lot of work to train mathematically talented students with Hungarian mother tongue and to develop their mathematical thinking, and to teach them problem solving and heuristic strategies for successful acting on the competitions. We collected the most interesting problems and methods presented by the trainer teachers.

• Teaching of old historical mathematics problems with ICT tools

  13-24

  Tünde Kántor

  Anna Tóth

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  20

  The aim of this study is to examine how teachers can use ICT (information and communications technology) tools and the method of blended learning to teach mathematical problem solving. The new Hungarian mathematics curriculum (NAT) emphasizes the role of history of science, therefore we chose a topic from the history of mathematics, from the geometry of triangles: Viviani's Theorem and its problem field. We carried out our teaching experiments at a secondary school with 14-year-old students. Students investigated open geometrical problems with the help of a dynamic geometric software (GeoGebra). Their research work was similar to the historical way.

• Report on "Problem Solving in Mathematics Education": ProMath 6 Conference, 8–11 September, 2005, Debrecen, Hungary

  313-319

  Tünde Kántor

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  32

  The sixth ProMath Conference was organized at the University of Debrecen (Hungary) in the year 2005. There were 12 presentations. After a short historical introduction we present the 12 abstracts written by the authors.

• Outstanding mathematicians in the 20th century: András Rapcsák (1914-1993)

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  Tünde Kántor

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  In this paper we commemorate the life and work of András Rapcsák on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. He was an outstanding professor and a scholar teacher. He was head of the Department of Geometry (1958-1973) and the director of the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Debrecen (Hungary). He played an important role in the life of the University of Debrecen. He was the rector of this university between 1966 and 1973.
  At the beginning of his career he taught at secondary schools in several towns. He wrote mathematical schoolbooks with coauthors. He also taught at Teacher's College in Debrecen and in Eger.
  He became to interested in differential geometry under the influence of Ottó Varga. The fields of his research were line-element spaces and related areas. He was elected an Ordinary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science in 1965. He wrote 21 papers, 8 school and textbooks and 3 articles in didactics of mathematics.

• Mathematical gems of Debrecen old mathematical textbooks from the 16-18th centuries

  73-110

  Tünde Kántor-Varga

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  29

  In the Great Library of the Debrecen Reformed College (Hungary) we find a lot of old mathematical textbooks. We present: Arithmetic of Debrecen (1577), Maróthi's Arithmetic (1743), Hatvani's introductio (1757), Karacs's Figurae Geometricae (1788), Segner's Anfangsgründe (1764) and Mayer's Mathematischer Atlas (1745). These old mathematical textbooks let us know facts about real life of the 16-18th centuries, the contemporary level of sciences, learning and teaching methods. They are rich sources of motivation in the teaching of mathematics.

• Report on the Conference of History of Mathematics and Teaching of Mathematics: research in History of Mathematics and Teaching of Mathematics : University of Szeged 19-23 May, 2010, Szeged, Hungary

  319-338

  Tünde Kántor

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  35

  The 6th Conference on the History of Mathematics and Teaching of Mathematics was held in Szeged (Hungary). Its motto reads as:
  Mathematics – a common language for Europe for thousand years.
  The aim of the conference was to present aspects of History of Mathematics, including its impact on Teaching of Mathematics, to provide a forum to meet each other, and to give an opportunity for young researchers to present their results in these fields. University colleagues, students, graduate students and other researchers were invited. The programme of the Conference included talks and posters. The abstracts of the lectures and the posters are presented in this report. There were 24 presentations and poster lectures.

• Hungarian mathematicians in the twentieth century: Ottó Varga (1909–1969)

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  Tünde Kántor

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  30

  In this article we want to present life and work of Ottó Varga on occasion of the centenary of his birth. He was an outstanding geometer, the head of the Mathematical Seminar / Department (1942-1959) and the first dean of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Debrecen (Hungary).
  His area of research was differential geometry. The Debrecen school of differential geometry emerged due his activity. He wrote 57 papers.

• Mathematical Doctoral School of the Mathematical Seminar of the University of Debrecen at the beginning of the 20th century (Debrecen, 1927-1940)

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  Tünde Kántor

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  In this article, we present the life and carrier of Professor Lajos Dávid, and those 16 mathematical dissertations, along with their authors, which were written under the supervision of Professor Dávid between 1927 and 1940. At the time mentioned, Lajos Dávid was the leader of the Mathematical Seminar of the University of Debrecen. The themes of the dissertations were connected with his scientific work, such as the history of mathematics (the two Bolyais), or his research work in mathematical analysis (arithmetic-geometric mean).

• Report on the Conference of History of Mathematics & Teaching of Mathematics with Special Subject Ethno-mathematics: Research in History of Mathematics & Teaching of Mathematics : University of Miskolc, 18–21 May, 2006, Miskolc, Hungary

  437-449

  Tünde Kántor

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  35

  The 4th Conference on History of Mathematics & Teaching of Mathematics with Special Subject Ethno-mathematics was organized at the University of Miskolc (Hungary). The aim of the conference was to present aspects of the History of Mathematics and Ethno-mathematics, including its impact on the Teaching of Mathematics.
  Its motto was: Mathematics – a common language for Europe for thousand years.
  There were 21 presentations, a poster lecture (J. Kolumbán, University of Cluj, Romania) and an exhibition made by students of Eötvös University, Budapest (R. Tanács, K. Varga).
  After a short historical introduction we present 19 abstracts and the poster lecture.