UICSM High School Mathematics, Experimental Programed Edition
date: label: Date made
content: 1963
name: label: maker
content: University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics
notes: label: Description
content: Mathematics has long had a prominent place in American education at all levels. In part for this reason, during the 1950s and 1960s there were at least nine important programs to improve math teaching in the United States. One of oldest was the University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics, established in 1951.
label: Description
content: The UICSM developed an introductory course in high school mathematics. Materials included these programmed textbooks, which covered some of the same material as a more conventional textbook. Information and questions appear on one page, and the next page reveals the answer. Turning the book upside down gives a new set of questions and answers.
label: Description
content: Topics were often explained with cartoon-like drawings. A total of four books were needed for the semester-long course. As in other curriculum projects, these programmed textbooks were reproduced cheaply for classroom trials. In this case, they did not go beyond the experimental stage.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Illinois, Urbana
topic: label: Subject
content: Education
label: Subject
content: School
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Teaching Machines
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content: Sputnik
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of O. Robert Brown Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.3052.01
label: catalog number
content: 2006.3052.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2006.3052
objectType: label: Object Name
content: books, group of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm x 21.6 cm x 28 cm; 2 3/4 in x 8 1/2 in x 11 in