Book, Development of Arithmetic as a School Subject
date: label: date made
content: 1917
name: label: maker
content: Monroe, Walter Scott
notes: label: Description
content: This paperbound monograph describes the history of arithmetic teaching in the United States to its time of issue, with particular emphasis on the work and influence of William Colburn. The author, Walter Scott Monroe (1882–1961), was professor of school administration at the Kansas State Normal School. He went on to take an active interest in the development of educational tests (see MA.316371.045) .
label: Description
content: The monograph was issued by the Bureau of Education of the United States Department of the Interior. This copy was the property of L. Leland Locke, a Brooklyn mathematics teacher and an historian of mathematics.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Arithmetic Teaching
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Grove City College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.3051.02
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content: 2011.3051
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3051.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .6 cm x 15 cm x 23.3 cm; 1/4 in x 5 29/32 in x 9 3/16 in