Laboratory notebooks: a cautionary tale

A mathematician tends to have an intense relationship with treatises – one which is more akin to that of a historian than that of her colleagues in the ‘hard’ sciences. A book may be a century or two old and still be relevant as a source of information or inspiration, well-thumbed textbooks from youth might be still consulted decades later, and fierce arguments rage about relative merits of different treatments of the same subject. And much like any book-lover, a mathematician is forever arguing with herself whether she can afford to buy this volume or the other. When the price label is in dollars or euros and the salary paid in rupees, this last dilemma is particularly acute.

Creating a modern database from archive material - The Norman Holme archive: Interpretation of marine field research notebooks in the historical context of the MBA, 1958-83

This document provides details of the transfer of the Norman Holme archive data held in the National Marine Biological Library onto a modern database, specifically Marine Recorder. A key part in the creation of the database was the retrieval of a large amount of information recorded in field notebooks and on loosely-bound sheets of paper. As this work involved amending, interpreting and updating the available information, it was felt that an accurate record of this process should exist to allow scientists of the future to be able to clearly link the modern database to the archive material. This document also provides details of external information sources that were used to enhance and qualify the historical interpretation, such as estimating volumes and species abundances.

Teaching science with interactive notebooks.

En este recurso se presenta una forma atractiva y creativa para no solo desarrollar los conocimientos científicos, sino para enseñar habilidades de escritura y fomentar el uso de habilidades de pensamiento de orden superior. Describe cómo implementar cuadernos interactivos en el aula de ciencias basados en la investigación, incluida la ejecución, gestión del tiempo, y la clasificación. Se muestra cómo empezar a utilizarlos, desde los fundamentos y procedimientos para la gestión del aula, la evaluación, y las tareas. Ofrece ejemplos de cuadernos de los estudiantes y explica cómo implementar un proceso interactivo que fortalece la capacidad de pensamiento crítico y habilidades de colaboración entre los estudiantes.

Collectives of humans-with-media in mathematics education: Notebooks, blackboards, calculators, computers and ... notebooks throughout 100 years of ICMI

The main aim of this study was to present evidence of the ways in which different media have conditioned and dramatically reorganized education, in general, and mathematics education, in particular. After an introduction of the theme, we discuss the epistemological perspective that provides the foundation for our analysis: the notion of humans-with-media. Then, we briefly illustrate how the medium is related to the scientific production of mathematical knowledge. We take a detour into the world of art to examine how devices and instruments have historically been associated with the production of mathematical knowledge. Then, we review studies on the history of education to show how traditional media were introduced into schools and have influenced education. In particular, we examine how devices such as blackboards and notebooks, which were novelties a 100 years ago, came to be accepted in schools and the mathematical activities that were promoted with their use. Finally, we discuss how information technology has changed education and how the Internet may have an impact on mathematics education comparable to that of the notebook over a century ago. © FIZ Karlsruhe 2009.

Lady de [Luise von] Rothschild : extracts from her notebooks

with a pref. by ... Constance Battersea

Chaldee verb notebooks, ca. 1778

These three small volumes, written in Chaldean Aramaic and English, are in Parmele's hand.

The notebooks of Anna Magdelena Bach. [music] : from the years 1722 and 1725 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Matthew Arnold's notebooks;

"Passages that struck him in his daily reading... The quotations are in English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Greek."--Pref.