Flash Cards, Multiplication and Division
date: label: date made
content: ca 1902
name: label: maker
content: Fireside Game Company
notes: label: Description
content: This educational card game consists of fifty-three cards (this example has fifty-two, plus one glued to the back of the case), a pamphlet of instructions, and a case with lid. It is one of a series of games designed under the general editorship of Richard G. Boone and the immediate editorship of David Eugene Smith by Earl Trisler, First Assistant, Third Intermediate School in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Cincinnati Game Company was a subsidiary of the U.S. Playing Card Company, formed from the Fireside Game Company in 1900 to publish instructive games for use in schools.
label: Description
content: The cards in this game show a country school house with three children in front. Multiplication and division signs are around the edge. On the other side, each card contains a number (often two digits long) in red, twice, and another number in green. The red numbers represent products and the green numbers divisors. Students were dealt four cards and placed them face up on the table. In a game of multiplication, they took a green number from one of their cards and a product from an opponent’s card and indicated the appropriate multiplier. A similar game required division.
label: Description
content: Instructions included describe the games.
label: Description
content: Compare 2014.0293.06, 2014.0293.07, and 2014.0293.08.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
label: Subject
content: Education
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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 Dr. Richard Lodish American School Teaching Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0293.07
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0293.07
label: accession number
content: 2014.0293
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flash cards
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.4 cm x 6.9 cm x 9.4 cm; 15/16 in x 2 23/32 in x 3 11/16 in