| 书目名称 | Thomas Jefferson and his Decimals 1775–1810: Neglected Years in the History of U.S. School Mathemati | | 编辑 | M.A. (Ken) Clements,Nerida F. Ellerton | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Extensive use of primary sources to fully detail the issue of metrication.Synthesizes 400 years of historical data.Analyzes the implications of non-metrication for mathematics educators and the field | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This well-illustrated book, by two established historians of school mathematics, documents Thomas Jefferson’s quest, after 1775, to introduce a form of decimal currency to the fledgling United States of America. The book describes a remarkable study showing how the United States’ decision to adopt a fully decimalized, carefully conceived national currency ultimately had a profound effect on U.S. school mathematics curricula..The book shows, by analyzing a large set of arithmetic textbooks and an even larger set of handwritten cyphering books, that although most eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors of arithmetic textbooks included sections on vulgar and decimal fractions, most school students who prepared cyphering books did not study either vulgar or decimal fractions. In other words, author-intended school arithmetic curricula were not matched by teacher-implemented school arithmetic curricula. Amazingly, that state of affairs continued even after the U.S. Mint began minting dollars, cents and dimes in the 1790s. In U.S. schools between 1775 and 1810 it was often the case that Federal money was studied but decimal fractions were not. That gradually changed during the first | | 出版日期 | Book 2015 | | 关键词 | History of Measurement in mathematics education; Metric System in mathematics curricula; Metrication a | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02505-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-34710-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-02505-6 | | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 |
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