"Modern Math" Workshop
Collection
Albuquerque Public Schools
Dateca. 1965
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions2 7/8 × 3 13/16 in. (7.3 × 9.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Albuquerque Public Schools
Object numberPA1997.046.559
DescriptionMrs. Dora Clark, an elementary school counsulting teacher, shows three teaching aids used for teaching decimals to students in a professional development workshop for Albuquerque Public School teachers in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is displaying three figures that have clothespins attached as if they are fingers. Each figure has a word (decimal place) written on it: hundreds, tens, ones. A caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Modern Math aids used in a recent in-service workshop for APS personnel are demonstrated by Mrs. Dora Clark, elementary consulting teacher and instructor for the workshop. Mrs. Clark taught the same course last summer to professors and teachers at the University of Caracas in Venezuela."On View
Not on view
ca. 1940