FlashMaster Electronic Teaching Device
date: label: date made
content: 2002
name: label: maker
content: Resor, Charles Pillsbury
notes: label: Description
content: The Flashmaster, introduced in 2002 for both school and home use, was designed to be an electronic alternative to flash cards in arithmetic teaching. It not only gave examples to be solved, but allowed for timed tests and tracked student performance.
label: Description
content: The lightweight instrument has a gray plastic case. One selects the learning activity desired by pressing one of the six yellow buttons near the top. Three white buttons allow one to choose the time limit, the arithmetic operation, and the level of the activity. The time and the level, along with the problem to be solved, appear on the screen below. Students enter answers by pressing the digit buttons across the bottom.
label: Description
content: According to the cardboard box, the instrument was "DESIGNED, DEVELOPED & MANUFACTURED FOR FLASHMASTER LLC (/) BY ACCENT ENTINEERING (LUBBOCK, TEXAS) and TRONICBROS. (HONG KONG)." Flashmaster LLC has an address in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Learning Arithmetic
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Arithmetic Teaching
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Pillsbury Resor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0046.01
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0046.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0046
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teaching device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall box: 4 cm x 25 cm x 14 cm; 1 9/16 in x 9 27/32 in x 5 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: flashmaster: 2 cm x 18.6 cm x 10.7 cm; 25/32 in x 7 5/16 in x 4 7/32 in