{"id":77,"date":"2011-01-12T15:29:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bender.library.american.edu:8083\/archives\/?p=77"},"modified":"2011-01-12T15:29:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:29:57","slug":"currently-on-display-learning-through-dictation-elementary-mathematics-problems-in-the-18th-and-19th-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/currently-on-display-learning-through-dictation-elementary-mathematics-problems-in-the-18th-and-19th-centuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Currently on Display &#8211; Learning through Dictation: Elementary Mathematics Problems in the 18th and 19th Centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tArchives and Special Collections is pleased to announce the opening of its spring 2011 exhibit, \u201cLearning through Dictation: Elementary Mathematics Problems in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> and 19<sup>th<\/sup> Centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries, arithmetic was taught through a set of rules that could be used in solving problems.\u00a0 Commercial topics and vocational applications were predominant.\u00a0 Instructors taught by dictation.\u00a0 They presented the rules along with examples and practice problems.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibit features copy books and text books for both instructors and students from the Artemas Martin and Karen D. Michalowicz Collections.\u00a0 The copy books on display span over eighty years and illustrate the method of teaching over this period.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives and Special Collections is pleased to announce the opening of its spring 2011 exhibit, \u201cLearning through Dictation: Elementary Mathematics Problems in the 18th and 19th Centuries.\u201d In the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries, arithmetic was taught through a set of rules that could be used in solving problems.\u00a0 Commercial topics and vocational applications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits","category-featured-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}