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Geomat.dk: Historical Instruments of Navigation—Used as Educational Tools in Mathematics

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This paper gives a short description of the scope and content of an educational project. The approach is to use historical navigational devices, such as sextants and cross staffs, to teach mathematics in secondary schools. By making collections of these devices available to teachers and bringing them into the class room a new approach to combine mathematics education, material culture and the history of navigation has been developed.

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  1. Aarhus Statsgymnasium, St. Blichers Vej 20, 8230, Aabyhoj, Denmark

    Ivan Tafteberg Jakobsen

  2. Aarhus Akademi, Silkeborgvej 130 1, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark

    Jesper Matthiasen

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  1. Ivan Tafteberg Jakobsen
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Correspondence to Jesper Matthiasen.

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The paper was published in the proceedings from the ICHSSE conference in Flensburg 2012.

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Jakobsen, I.T., Matthiasen, J. Geomat.dk: Historical Instruments of Navigation—Used as Educational Tools in Mathematics. Interchange 47, 1–14 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10780-015-9259-1

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