A Case for a Standard Elementary Math Education in Ancient Rome

Although overshadowed in the ancient Roman sources by the importance given to grammar and literature in a child’s school curriculum, secondary instructors of rhetoric and philosophy required their pupils to have a certain level of numerical familiarity, such as Quintilian, who believed that mathema...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Luis Sanchez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Florida State Open Publishing 2020-11-01
Series:The Owl
Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/owl/article/view/119036