Hi everyone,

I am reading the book, Teaching Big History by Simon, Behmand and Burke and came across a fascinating passage:

"It's one thing to learn trigonometry by formula in a classroom, and quite another to understand that by using trigonometry ... our ancestors ... were able to navigate the seas ... and thus to populate every continent, to drive trade, to spread ideas, religions, markets ... around the globe."

How cool would that be to teach math in a Big History context and show what exactly each new math concept mastered throughout history enabled us to do that couldn't be done before. Has such a little big history of math been written?