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In the United States Stern continued the innovations in education she had begun in Germany. Rather than force children to memorize mathematics, she sought to teach them the fundamental relationships of arithmetic. She developed a challenging series of numbered block games to help children make mathematical abstractions concrete. She had children analyze and reassemble words and speech in order to teach reading skills more effectively. After 1940 she began an association with gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer at the New School for Social Research, fusing her search for more active methods of pedagogy with his school of psychology. She wrote several influential textbooks, including Children Discover Arithmetic: An Introduction to Structural Arithmetic (1949). From 1944 to 1951 she conducted the experimental Castle School in Manhattan with her daughter and Margaret J. Bassett, and she continued to pioneer new methods of instruction, which she and her daughter detailed in books such as Experimenting...
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