“Een braaf en leerzaam meisje”. Rekenonderwijs voor biedermeijermeisjes in Nederland, 1800-1860

Arithmetics teaching for Biedermeier girls in The Netherlands, 1800-1860 During the first half of the nineteenth century arithmetic textbooks, according to the title page explicitely written for girls, were published in the Netherlands. Before 1800 and after i860 they simply do not exist. When compared to contemporary textbooks 'for boys' the didactical approach is very similar to the didactics most common in textbooks for pupils at so-called French schools: many different kind of word exercises, to show the pupil how useful mathematics was and at the same time preventing him or her from takin... Mehr ...