Author: B. RozzellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Practical Suggestions for Facilitating the Adoption of a Decimal Currency
Author: B. RozzellDecimal Currency for Britain
Author: D. Neville WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decimal system
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Decimal Currency: Three Years to Go
Author: Great Britain. Decimal Currency BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decimal system
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Your Guide to Decimal Money
Author: Great Britain. Decimal Currency BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Money
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Currency Reform and the Need for a Nickel Coinage on a Decimal Basis
Author: G. E. M. JohnsonThomas Jefferson and his Decimals 1775–1810: Neglected Years in the History of U.S. School Mathematics
Author: M.A. (Ken) ClementsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319025058
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This well-illustrated book, by two established historians of school mathematics, documents Thomas Jefferson’s quest, after 1775, to introduce a form of decimal currency to the fledgling United States of America. The book describes a remarkable study showing how the United States’ decision to adopt a fully decimalized, carefully conceived national currency ultimately had a profound effect on U.S. school mathematics curricula. The book shows, by analyzing a large set of arithmetic textbooks and an even larger set of handwritten cyphering books, that although most eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors of arithmetic textbooks included sections on vulgar and decimal fractions, most school students who prepared cyphering books did not study either vulgar or decimal fractions. In other words, author-intended school arithmetic curricula were not matched by teacher-implemented school arithmetic curricula. Amazingly, that state of affairs continued even after the U.S. Mint began minting dollars, cents and dimes in the 1790s. In U.S. schools between 1775 and 1810 it was often the case that Federal money was studied but decimal fractions were not. That gradually changed during the first century of the formal existence of the United States of America. By contrast, Chapter 6 reports a comparative analysis of data showing that in Great Britain only a minority of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century school students studied decimal fractions. Clements and Ellerton argue that Jefferson’s success in establishing a system of decimalized Federal money had educationally significant effects on implemented school arithmetic curricula in the United States of America. The lens through which Clements and Ellerton have analyzed their large data sets has been the lag-time theoretical position which they have developed. That theory posits that the time between when an important mathematical “discovery” is made (or a concept is “created”) and when that discovery (or concept) becomes an important part of school mathematics is dependent on mathematical, social, political and economic factors. Thus, lag time varies from region to region, and from nation to nation. Clements and Ellerton are the first to identify the years after 1775 as the dawn of a new day in U.S. school mathematics—traditionally, historians have argued that nothing in U.S. school mathematics was worthy of serious study until the 1820s. This book emphasizes the importance of the acceptance of decimal currency so far as school mathematics is concerned. It also draws attention to the consequences for school mathematics of the conscious decision of the U.S. Congress not to proceed with Thomas Jefferson’s grand scheme for a system of decimalized weights and measures.
Learning about Decimal Currency
Author: Australia. Decimal Currency BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decimal system
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Decimal Currency Board Newsletter
Author: Great Britain. Decimal Currency BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decimal system
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Report from the Select Committee on Decimal Coinage
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Decimal CoinagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
When Britain Went Decimal
Author: Mark StockerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781912667567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The United Kingdom was the last major nation-state in the world to adopt decimal currency, 50 years ago in 1971. Why was it so slow to do so? What changed politicians' and peoples' minds about it in the 1960s? Were Britain's plans to join the EEC influential? What was the impact of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand going decimal several years earlier? Or did it simply happen because of common sense, with a decimal system so much easier to learn and use than pounds, shillings and pence?The route to find the right designs was a complex one, with interfering politicians, struggling artists, and at one stage an angry Duke of Edinburgh! It took over five years to get there, and then there was the seven-sided 50 pence - a design classic we would say today, but what did the media and public think of it when it was launched in 1969?When Britain Went Decimal takes readers through the changeover leading to D-Day (decimalisation day), and beyond: how smooth and successful was the process? Did newspapers secretly hope it would fail? While decimalisation might have seemed right at the time, did it lead to inflation, as many people believe today?Entertainingly written and beautifully illustrated, this first book on decimalisation since 1973 attempts to answer all these questions and more, looking as much at the design - indeed the 'art' behind the new coinage - as at social, economic and political history.