Charts and Tables for Instruction Ancient Babylonian scribes learned to record numerical tables on clay tablets ... new European ideas about teaching arithmetic to very young children reached the ...

In a separate series of four experiments, the researchers taught 122 middle-class 6- to 8-year-old students how to read basic bar charts. Some of the charts used solid bars of one or multiple ...

With the advent of relatively large classes of students studying arithmetic in common schools, educators began to prepare special charts to assist in instruction. By 1900, these could be quite ...