Summary

Summary

Mathematics is a discipline that, throughout its history, in addition to
Its own development has responded to social and scientific needs in all
civilizations, which confers a preponderant role in the cultural tradition of our
society. Its own nature, its essential characteristics and the notions and structures
that make them up, contribute in a singular way to the formation of people and to
development of his faculties, as well as the cultivation of his character. Also, mathematics
provide tools for the development of work activity and for exercise
professional, so they are instruments of preparation and training for the
citizenship (Rico and Lupiáñez, 2008). These essential characteristics make the
mathematics is a structural part of school education. Mathematical education
proclaims as a principle that all citizens must achieve, through the
mathematics, the maximum possible development of all your skills, individual and
social, intellectual, cultural and emotional.

HISTORIAS DE LAS MATEMÁTICAS

El presente trabajo colaborativo mencionará los principales aportes a las matemáticas, hechos por la civilización Maya, así como también destacará algunos hechos que han tenido mucha trascendencia a lo largo de gran parte de la historia de las matemáticas.

  Ya que la matemática siempre ha tenido conexión con muchas ramas de la ciencia (por no decir que con todas), los aportes de dicha civilización se han extendido enormemente, por lo que, sin lugar a duda, en dichas ramas, hay personajes destacables por su brillantez de pensamiento. Tal es el caso de Euclides de quien se reseña su bibliografía.