Object Details
- Description
- Many students in preschools and elementary schools learn about simple geometry using geoboards. Wooden boards with a regular array of nails pounded into them have been used to teach about shapes, angles, and number patterns from at least 1954, when the Egyptian-born English educator Caleb Gattegno published an article about the geoboard. By 1970, geoboards had reached the United States and were recommended for teaching a wide range of mathematical topics. By the 1990s, most geoboards sold were plastic and were specifically intended for use by young children. This example has a 5 x 5 square array of pegs on one side. On the other side is a circle of twelve pegs, as well as a central peg and a peg near each corner. There is no maker's mark. The object was one of a set of seven geoboards that sold with activity cards, rubber bands, and teaching notes for $39.95. It was used in a first grade classroom at Long Lots School in Westport, Connecticut, by teacher Carin Pfeiffer.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Carin Pfeiffer
- 1997
- ID Number
- 2000.0010.01
- accession number
- 2000.0010
- catalog number
- 2000.0010.01
- Object Name
- teaching apparatus
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.7 cm x 12.8 cm x 12.8 cm; 11/16 in x 5 1/16 in x 5 1/16 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Women Teaching Math
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Education
- Mathematics
- Women's History
- Record ID
- nmah_904510
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-3aaf-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
