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History of Teaching Arithmetic

In: Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education

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  • Kristín Bjarnadóttir

    (University of Iceland, School of Education)

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The history of teaching arithmetic is traced back to the early-Modern Age Italian reckoning masters and their arithmetic textbooks – libri di abbaco – based on the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. After the introduction of printing, arithmetic textbooks were printed in a variety of European languages. The textbooks had standard content until the twentieth century: mainly the four arithmetic operations in whole numbers and fractions and proportions in the form of the Rule of Three. The first books were aimed at self-study, while the gradual establishment of schools changed their use, as did impacts from influential educators such as Comenius and Pestalozzi. After the mid-twentieth century, radical changes in arithmetic teaching were made in the worldwide introduction of the new math.

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  • Kristín Bjarnadóttir, 2014. "History of Teaching Arithmetic," Springer Books, in: Alexander Karp & Gert Schubring (ed.), Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 431-457, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4614-9155-2_21
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9155-2_21
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