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- Teaching Math in America Posted By On November 10, 2004 @
11:46 AM In Cool Sites | Comments Disabled Slide Rules, Slates,
and Software—Teaching Math in America is a site on the history
of math teaching since the beginning of the nation. It’s
sections are The Early Republic, The World Stage, The Cold War,
and The Information Age. The Early Republic talks about how math
was taught with “Ray’s Practical Arithmetic” using slates. In
the 1800′s blackboards were introduced to schools across America
by Math Teachers with ties to England and France. In 1840, The
Massachusetts educator William A. Alcott visited over 20,000
schoolhouses. “A blackboard, in every school house,” he wrote,
“is as indispensably necessary as a stove or fireplace.” It goes
on to show Arithmetic cards, and geometric models of the early
1800′s. The World Stage discusses how Americans began playing a
larger role in the field of Mathematics. New Arithmetic frames
were made as well