'PLAY-WAY / EDUCATIONAL / BOARD'. Game, probably commercially made, for practicing multiplication and addition. Above each set of numbers (such as '6 X 4' and '24' is the brass head of a paper fastener. This goes through the box and the fasteners are opened out on the inside. There is a dob of solder on each, fixing them in place and cotton covered wire joins answers with each corresponding question. The wire is attached underneath the open ends of the paper fastener on the inside of the box. Test prods (commercially made) are used to touch the question and answer and are each attached to a length of plastic coated wire which attach to the battery (missing). The battery would have been in one corner of the box and the leather thonging which held it in place is still there. The test prods are attached in series with a globe which would light when the correct combination of questions and answers is pressed. Although the globe is inside the box, a hole in each side would allow it to be seen. The box is rectangular and made in two halves like a case. It hinges in the middle and is closed with a latch. The sides are pine and the top and bottom three ply. The sides have been painted yellow and the top and bottom have yellow paper glued to them. On the paper are printed the sums and 'PLAY-WAY / EDUCATIONAL / BOARD'. A piece of masking tape has been stuck on the bottom right corner under the name. The writing under this is illegible but on one side may read 'Manufactured by C R Hardwell'. 'MISS Roggers' is written in a childish or unsteady hand on one piece of tape. One side has 66 easy multiplications on the left, and 54 answers on the right. The other has 60 sums on the left and 9 answers on the right. The toys were used by Miss Frances Rogers. Miss Rogers, born on 19 Oct 1904, went to Teacher's College in 1930 and joined the Education Department of W.A. in 1934. Between 1934 and her retirement in 1967, she taught at various country schools, took special classes for deaf and dumb children in Mosman Park, and classes for mentally and physically disabled children in Leederville. She also made and purchased a large collection of puppets which were used as teaching aids. These are accessioned under numbers H88/613 to H89/307 (not inclusive).
Department:
History DepartmentCollection
History Collection
Collection Item Data
| Accession Number: | H1989.382 |
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| Accession Date: | 11 May 1989 |
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Material
| Paper | Pine, paper, leather, wire, brass, plastic, metal, glass.
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| Plastic/Synthetic/Polymer |
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Measurement
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