History of Teaching Arithmetic

Kristín Bjarnadóttir ()
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Kristín Bjarnadóttir: University of Iceland, School of Education

Chapter Chapter 21 in Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education, 2014, pp 431-457 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The history of teaching arithmetic is traced back to the early-Modern Age Italian reckoning masters and their arithmetic textbooks – libri di abbaco – based on the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. After the introduction of printing, arithmetic textbooks were printed in a variety of European languages. The textbooks had standard content until the twentieth century: mainly the four arithmetic operations in whole numbers and fractions and proportions in the form of the Rule of Three. The first books were aimed at self-study, while the gradual establishment of schools changed their use, as did impacts from influential educators such as Comenius and Pestalozzi. After the mid-twentieth century, radical changes in arithmetic teaching were made in the worldwide introduction of the new math.

Keywords: Nineteenth Century; Mathematics Education; Arithmetic Operation; Seventeenth Century; Reform Movement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9155-2_21

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