The catalogues of school supplies as a source for the History of Mathematics Education: the case of the abacus
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https://doi.org/10.5944/hme.7.2018.18638Keywords:
Catalogues, School supplies, Abacus, CountersAbstract
In this work we study school supply catalogues as a source for the study of History of Mathematics Education (HME). First, we describe some relevant characteristics of school supply catalogues when used as historical sources. Then, we analyse how abacuses appear in some sets of catalogues as a typical tool for teaching arithmetic. For this purpose, we devote a section to describing school abacuses and their uses. We describe the devices offered in catalogues according to their description and images. The existence of diachronic series of documents allows us to assess the degree to which the offer remained stable or changed as time passed. This analysis of abacuses appearing in catalogues will allow us to appreciate catalogues as a source material for HME.
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