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
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.
Each chapter is an enjoyable short story... worth having on an educator's shelf. -- Don Crossfield Convergence This book will be a crucial reference for anyone trying to understand the history of mathematics education in America. -- Fernando Gouvea American Scientist The history of mathematics education has attracted increasing numbers of researchers and consequently it has become enriched by substantive and thought-provoking works... The list of such works has been augmented with this new, exemplary study. -- Alexander Karp Teachers College Record The authors have done a heroic amount of research and have woven it into a compelling history that any educator will find illuminating. -- Jeremy Kilpatrick Science Education Educators, historians, mathematicians, or indeed anyone who has gone through public or private school in the last 200 years will enjoy this book. -- Amy Shell-Gellasch Historia Mathematica Kidwell, Ackerberg-Hastings, and Roberts deftly attend to how objects have been central to mathematical teaching in the United States -- Matt Wisnioski Technology and Culture This book is an important and comprehensive contribution to the history of mathematics education in America... It provides an interesting and engaging view of mathematics education in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. -- Steven C. Althoen Zentralblatt Math The volume is well written and richly documented, accompanied by instructive illustrations, thanks to the authors' extensive research... This exemplary study should challenge others to analyze similar developments in classroom practice in other countries as well. -- Gert Schubring International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education The authors of this volume have provided mathematics educators and other interested parties with a wealth of information and insights into an area of mathematics education that has been largely ignored. This volume is certainly an excellent and welcomed addition to the mathematics educator's library. -- Anthony V. Piccolino British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin The book is quite attractive with its many pictures... It would be a nice addition to a department common room or undergraduate lounge, particularly given the format that provides a few pages of description for many different tools, making it a good book for browsing. For the serious student of the history of mathematics education or educational technology, or even the general history of mathematics, this volume provides much information unavailable elsewhere, and, because of that, I believe this is a book that belongs in your university library. -- Andrew G. Bennett Notices of the American Mathematical Society Thorough and well researched... This book is essential for anyone involved in mathematics education. -- Brenda Strassfeld Mathematics Teacher Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800-2000 is a highly unusual, well-written book that will entice those who have been on either side of the lectern. -- Daniel S. Silver American Mathematical Monthly
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