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  • Arithmetic Teaching Apparatus
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Arithmetic Teaching Apparatus

Resources

American History Museum

In addition to materials from the mathematics collections shown here, the Division of Home and Community at the National Museum of American History has a rich array of arithmetic textbooks and related teaching apparatus. The Smithsonian Institution Libraries also have texts, as well as trade literature published by dealers in educational materials.

Published sources include:

P. A. Kidwell, A. Ackerberg-Hastings and David Lindsay-Roberts, Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800-2000, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

W. S. Monroe, Development of Arithmetic as a School Subject, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917.

D. L.  Roberts, American Mathematicians as Educators, 1893-1923: Historical Roots of the "Math Wars," Boston: Docent Press, 2012.

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