Developing an Economic Snapshot? The Post-War Years as Example
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Researching the history of the U.S. economy? This case study may help guide your own research.
Posted in: Business
Archive: August 2021 (2 Posts)
Mental Arithmetic
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
However, practical arithmetic standardized professionalization by treating all students as potential workers in fields that required numeracy skills--from banking and farming to masonry and carpentry. The business application of arithmetic education became so ingrained--apparently to Davidson’s dismay--that by 1895, the West Virginia State Series curriculum defined arithmetic as: “the solving of problems from its various applications to business life.”
Posted in: Business, Mathematics