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Thomas Jefferson and his decimals 1775-1810 neglected years in the history of U.S. school mathematics /
Synthesizing four centuries of historical data, this study analyzes the long-term consequences of America's unique refusal to adopt the metric system, with generations of schoolchildren toiling over the complexities of 'Imperial' weights and measures.
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| Language: | English |
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Springer,
[2014]
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1 online resource (xx, 204 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Contents:
- Foreword; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Overall Book Abstract, and Individual Abstracts for the Seven Chapters; Overall Abstract; Individual Chapter Abstracts ; Chapter 1: 1776: Dawn of a New Day in School Mathematics in North America; Chapter 2: The Abbaco Curriculum in Colonial Schools in North America Before1776; Chapter 3: Thomas Jefferson and an Arithmetic for the People; Chapter 4: Weights and Measures in Teacher-Implemented Arithmetic Curricula in Eighteenth-Century North American Schools.
- Chapter 5: Decimal Fractions and Federal Money in School Mathematics in the United States of America 1792-1810Chapter 6: Decimal Fractions in School Arithmetic in Great Britain and North America During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Chapter 7: Decimal Fractions and Curriculum Change in School Arithmetic in North America in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Preface; References; Chapter 1 1776: Dawn of a New Day in School Mathematics in North America ; A New Day; Contentious Issues; What Was a School?
- Schooling During the Eighteenth Century in the British North American ColoniesThomas Jefferson's Bills for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge in Virginia; Jefferson on School Education in Virginia; Who Should Control the Schools?; Noah Webster's Call for a National Agenda for Education; Moves Toward Decimalization of Currency and Weights and Measures; Preliminary Moves Toward a New Currency; Preliminary Moves Toward a New System of Weights and Measures for a New Nation; Research Questions; The Lag-Time Theoretical Lens; References.
- Chapter 2 The Abbaco Curriculum in Colonial Schools in North America Before 1776 What Mathematics Did North American Students Study in Schools Before 1792?; The Abbaco Heritage; Author-Intended Curricula, as Interpreted Through Textbook Emphases; The Teacher-Implemented Arithmetic Curriculum; Vulgar (or Common) Fractions and Decimal Fractions in Intended and Implemented Arithmetic Curricula; Which Was Easier, the Author-Intended or the Implemented Arithmetic Curricula?; The Abbaco Arithmetic Curriculum in North America in the Eighteenth Century; Loring Andrews' Book.
- Analysis of Peter Tyson's Approach to Multiplying Money (Expressed in Sterling)Working for Task 1; Working for Task 2; Analysis of John Grey's Approach to Adding Quantities When They Were Given in Written Form; Comments on John Anderson's (1785) Notes on Reduction of Money; Comments on Silas Mead's (1772) Calculations for a Double Rule-of-Three Task; An Example Showing the Double Rule of Three in Silas Mead's (1772) Cyphering Book; Fellowship: The Arithmetic of Partnerships; Did Cyphering Books Really Serve as Reference Books Later in Students' Lives?