History of Tools and Technologies in Mathematics Education

David Lindsay Roberts ()
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David Lindsay Roberts: Prince George’s Community College

Chapter Chapter 28 in Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education, 2014, pp 565-578 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Although “technology” in mathematics education is often used exclusively to refer to electronic devices, it is important to recognize the longer and more varied history of tools in this field. We classify technology into two primary groups. General-purpose tools, of wide social importance, include the textbook, the blackboard, and the computer. Specialized technologies, sometimes found only in mathematics classrooms, include the slide rule, the protractor, and the cube root block. It is hoped that brief histories of these and other tools, although focused largely on the United States, will be usefully provocative for those with more global perspectives.

Keywords: Nineteenth Century; Mathematics Education; Mathematics Classroom; Early Nineteenth Century; Cube Root (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9155-2_28

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