Resources

American museums and libraries contain a rich array of objects associated with mathematics education. Scholars also have considered the place of women as teachers. Useful overviews include:

Geraldine J. Clifford, Those Good Gertrudes: A Social History of Women Teachers in America, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

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

Kim Tolley. The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective, New York and London: Routledge Falmer, 2003.

More references are given with specific object descriptions.