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1900 - 1923

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A collection of handwritten, typescript (including mimeographed documents), and some printed forms gathered by Leslie Leland Locke during his time training teachers of arithmetic at the Brooklyn Training School for Teachers -- The printed forms include examples from the Courtis Standard Practice Tests, issued by the World Book Company, and a notice from the Office of the City Superintendent of Schools (signed by William H. Maxwell, chairman of the board and dated November 15, 1906) on standards for the teaching of arithmetic at "the higher grades of the elementary schools." Leslie Leland Locke (1875-1943), during the time that he gathered together this collection, was an assistant at the Brooklyn Training School for Teachers, where he taught from 1908 to 1933. From 1917 to 1939 he was a professor of the history of mathematics at Brooklyn College. Locke was a noted authority on the history of mathematical instruments, particularly the Peruvian quipu. In 1939, Locke donated his personal collection of early calculating machines to the United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution). He was also a graduate of Grove City College.

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These sites of teaching & learning mention the Leslie Leland Locke Papers on the Teaching of Arithmetic in New York City Public Schools

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• Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
  1000 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560, United States