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Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000

Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, David Lindsay Roberts (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

440 Seiten

2008
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-8814-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Peggy Aldrich Kidwell is curator of the mathematics collections at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Amy Ackerberg-Hastings is an associate adjunct professor of history at the University of Maryland University College. David Lindsay Roberts is an adjunct professor in the Department of Developmental Mathematics at Prince George's Community College.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Tools of Presentation and General Pedagogy
1. Textbooks: Creating a National Standard
2. The Blackboard: An Indispensable Necessity
3. Standardized Tests: The Many Guises of Efficiency
4. The Overhead Projector: Snapping the Class to Attention
5. Teaching Machines and Programmed Instruction: A Lifeline in a Sea of Students
Part II: Tools of Calculation
6. The Abacus: Palpable Arithmetic
7. The Slide Rule: Useful Instruction for Practical People
8. The Cube Root Block: Teaching "Evolution" in the Schools
9. Blocks, Beads, and Bars: Learning Numbers through Manipulation
Part III: Tools of Measurement and Representation
10. The Protractor: Acute Solutions for Obtuse Students
11. Metric Teaching Apparatus: Making a Lasting Impression?
12. Graph Paper: From the Railroad Survey to the Classroom
13. Geometric Models: Ocular Demonstrations
14. Linkages: A Peculiar Fascination
Part IV: Electronic Technology and Mathematical Learning
15. Calculators: From Calculating Machines to the Little Professor
16. Minicomputers: Drill, Programming, and Instructional Games
17. Early Microcomputers: The Lure of Novelty
18. Graphing Calculators and Software Systems: The Media with a College Education
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.10.2008
Reihe/Serie	Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics
Zusatzinfo	3 Line drawings, black and white; 81 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	726 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-8018-8814-X / 080188814X
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-8814-4 / 9780801888144
Zustand	Neuware