Abstract
In the first month of the Golden Jubilee Year, it seems appropriate to reflect upon selected pioneer researches on elementary school mathematics. This article presents thirty-four examples of research that touch the following eight topics: beginning instruction; content selection; role of drill and practice; basic operations; problem solving; readability and vocabulary; disability; history and summaries of research. Since most of the researches presented here are well known, the methods and results will be described only briefly; more important, they illustrate the tremendouszeal and insight with which elementary school mathematics, and the methods of teaching it, have been studied from the time of the initial professionalization of the subject matter for the elementary school (1915-20) to about the conclusion of World War II in 1945. This period corresponds roughly to the first twenty-five years of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
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