One of their (preservice teachers) takeaways is that Black schools were literally closed in the South because they were outperforming White schools. Just one of the many things in the history of math ed.

I think so. There are so few copies of it in existence, but it is still technically copyrighted. I would love a chance to see something done with the amazing images though. If a printer does something w/ it, please let me know.

And this one by him as well really does exist in only 1 library. search.worldcat.org/title/513774... This is only in a library in Hong Kong according to my interlibrary loan folks.

Wow. Thank you for that information. It is really sad how few copies are still in existence!

I have all my math students read the Critical History of Math Education by Berry. It is chap 2? in the book Brilliance of Black Children. It always shocks them.

Sorry, inter library loan.

I did do an ILL for the mathgraf book. Maybe something can come of that.

yes, that is one of the two I shared. The ISBN is 962-85081-1-3. isbnsearch.org/isbn/9628508...

I also just found this book:
MATHGRAF: functions to pictures
Creator: Shih, K. G
Publisher: Hong Kong: Wise Lynn Co
Creation Date: 1996
ISBN: 9789628508136
ISBN: 962850813X

The publishing company doesn't exist (probably was purchased and subsumed by another company). I would love to find a group who could recreate the software to make our own images too. So beautiful. #mathart

Awesome! Thank you for continuing the search. I could not find any copies for sale anywhere. My copies were through Interlibrary loan & I scanned them. They are worthy of continued searching though. Loop me in if you find out something! I know he has passed away, and used to live in Canada.

You are most welcome. They are so beautiful. I really want to recreate his software so I can generate these myself.

You are very welcome!

It makes me wonder how many really great math resources, math writing, math images are lost due to time. 1996 was only 30 years ago, but nearly all mention of these two books is gone. #lostbook #MTBoS

I remember finding a third book he published at one time, but the only library that had a copy was in Hong Kong, and the library was going to charge me shipping both ways to do ILL. I said no. Now I wish I would have. Searching now, I can only find mentions of these two and only mentions.

Dr. Shih also published a second book, Picture Mathematics for School Education. This is over 300 pages of geometry, algebra, and code to generate images on his MathGraf platform. Very detailed book & gives inspiration for teaching. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bunhn... #lostbook #mtbos

This book just inspires me! I am sure we could backwards design the software using desmos to do most of the graphs (if not all). I had a student scan in the book for me. It is hard to even find in any system anymore. #lostbook #MTBoS www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v0g8p... if you want a copy.

I've been collecting some old, amazing books. I will post later this week a couple. These resources are too easy to lose

I had to scan the back cover too. It was published in 1990 by @nctm.org. It is in very few libraries (so it almost doesn't exist anymore), and it was checked out 2 times in 1995. That's it. Very sad that such a great tool was almost forgotten.

@jedediyah.com , just got it today via hardcopy ILL, and scanned it. TONS of resources and citations in it. Shocking amount actually. Here is a link so you can download it. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ieeo7...