Arithmetic School, a Toy by Playskool
date: label: date made
content: ca 1962
name: label: maker
content: Playskool
notes: label: Description
content: In the early 1960s, the Chicago firm of Playskool introduced this educational toy for children three to six years old, seeking to give them an early familiarity with numbers. It has two rows of relatively large rotating wooden rectangular blocks, each with a row of square rotating wooden blocks below. The larger blocks have problems in simple addition written on them, the smaller ones answers. The problems and correct answers are written in the same color of paint. The blocks move on metal rods that are attached at top and bottom to a frame. The frame is supported at the back by a collapsible metal stand. The frame is painted with a pattern of bricks on the side and a roof at the top.
label: Description
content: A contemporary advertisement indicates that the toy cost $3.19.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Jordan Marsh Company , [Advertisement], <I>The Boston Globe</I>, November 4, 1962, p. E5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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 Sherman L. and Marjorie A. Naidorf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0055.03
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0055.03
label: accession number
content: 2005.0055
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame, blocks material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (rods, support material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27.5 cm x 35.8 cm x 13.3 cm; 10 13/16 in x 14 3/32 in x 5 1/4 in