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The Library of Congress’ Collections are full of primary source images and documents that can be used to enhance the teaching of math!
Getting Started
• Brainstorm math words to use as search terms.• Encourage students to think about words
describing shapes (octagon, triangle, pentagon, cylinder, square), large numbers (thousand, million), measurement devices (abacus, ruler, scale, calculator), and mathematical terms (intersect, parallel, circumference, diameter).
• Hunt for images across the American Memory Collections using these terms.
Giant wheels ten feet in diameter, once used for carrying logs to sawmill. Michigan (1936 photograph)
Colville men on horseback ride around inside circle of tipis on July 4th, Nespelem, Colville Indian Reservation, Washington. (1905)
Yellow Owl – Mandan…Description by Edward S. Curtis: A face approaching the type of pure Mandan. The neck ornament consists of beads and cylindrical bones, and from the eagle-feather war-bonnet hang numerous weasel-tails. (1909 photogravure)
New York, New York. Chinaman counting on an abacus in a Chinese grocery store in Chinatown (1942 photograph)
Row of automobiles parked perpendicular to two other rows of automobiles on a rooftop parking lot (1928 photograph)
The corner is squared and reinforcement nailed over joints. Screen door construction demonstration. Charles County, La Plata, Maryland. (1941 photograph)
I spy a number equal to 1000 thousand written two different ways on this song sheet. What is the number?
Conduct the “Eye Spy” Activity
• Print out and mount the images on construction paper. (Make sure to include the image title and summary on the back of the paper.)
• Display the mounted photos on a bulletin board or along a hallway.
• Give the class time to study the display. • Have each student read his or her “Eye Spy”
question aloud.• Have class members try to be the first to find the
correct matching image.
White House Grounds and Ellipse
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(DC0798))
U.S.Capitolhttp://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(DC0253))
Photo Button Manufacturing Company (page 3 from undated catalog)http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/ephemera/@Generic__BookTextView/39341
Public Sale (1858 broadside)http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/broadsides/B01/B0101/B0101-72dpi.html