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Tools of Amercian Mathematics Teaching 1800-2000

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From the blackboard to the graphing calculator, the tools developed to teach mathematics in America have a rich history shaped by educational reform, technological innovation, and spirited entrepreneurship. In Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800--2000, Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, and David Lindsay Roberts present the first systematic historical study of the objects used in the American mathematics classroom. They discuss broad tools of presentation and pedagogy (not only blackboards and textbooks, but early twentieth-century standardized tests, teaching machines, and the overhead projector), tools for calculation, and tools for representation and measurement. Engaging and accessible, this volume tells the stories of how specific objects such as protractors, geometric models, slide rules, electronic calculators, and computers came to be used in classrooms, and how some disappeared.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Tools of Presentation and General Pedagogy1. Textbooks: Creating a National Standard2. The Blackboard: An Indispensable Necessity3. Standardized Tests: The Many Guises of Efficiency4. The Overhead Projector: Snapping the Class to Attention5. Teaching Machines and Programmed Instruction: A Lifeline in a Sea of StudentsPart II: Tools of Calculation6. The Abacus: Palpable Arithmetic7. The Slide Rule: Useful Instruction for Practical People8. The Cube Root Block: Teaching ""Evolution"" in the Schools9. Blocks, Beads, and Bars: Learning Numbers through ManipulationPart III: Tools of Measurement and Representation10. The Protractor: Acute Solutions for Obtuse Students11. Metric Teaching Apparatus: Making a Lasting Impression?12. Graph Paper: From the Railroad Survey to the Classroom13. Geometric Models: Ocular Demonstrations14. Linkages: A Peculiar FascinationPart IV: Electronic Technology and Mathematical Learning15. Calculators: From Calculating Machines to the Little Professor16. Minicomputers: Drill, Programming, and Instructional Games17. Early Microcomputers: The Lure of Novelty18. Graphing Calculators and Software Systems: The Media with a College EducationNotesIndex

""Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800GÇô2000 is a highly unusual, well-written book that will entice those who have been on either side of the lectern.""

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