Look and See! Touch and Feel! Training the Senses of Children from Six to Fourteen Years of Age with New Play Materials

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Description:

Documentation received with Catherine Stern's apparatus for teaching arithmetic suggests how her ideas changed over time. This publication from about 1939 describes apparatus aimed at generally training the senses rather than teaching about numbers and arithmetic.

For Stern's later apparatus, see 2005.0229.01 and 2005.0229.02. Other documentation is part of transaction 2005.3100.

Date Made: ca 1939

Location: Currently not on view

Subject: Psychology, Mathematics, Women's History

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Mathematics, Women Teaching Math, Science & Mathematics, Arithmetic Teaching

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Credit Line: Gift of Peggy S. Mabie

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2005.3100.01Catalog Number: 2005.3100.01Nonaccession Number: 2005.3100

Object Name: pamphlet

Physical Description: paper (overall material)Measurements: overall: .3 cm x 15.7 cm x 23.5 cm; 1/8 in x 6 3/16 in x 9 1/4 in

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-d382-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1297171

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