The problem likely lies with the chalk itself. A lot of chalk you buy today, especially cheap chalk, is too hard to use on chalkboards with any kind of good result. Try a different brand of chalk, one that is softer.
They didn't. Most Native Americans didn't have writing systems prior to the arrival of the Europeans.
victorian children wrote with charcoalI think you will find that for school work they used a chalk and board, and for writing on paper, a quill pen and ink, but if you were poor and in a village school you would only use chalk
The biggest advantage of a chalkboard is that it provides a fairly inexpensive way to write on the wall of a classroom to be seen by all students. Chalkboards have many disadvantages however, including the terrible sounds they make when scratched or touched by some things and the lack of flexibility and interaction offered by a dry-erase board or a SMART board.
I imagine anything prisoners of any other time used. ink, lead, chalk, blood, mud onto the ground, wood, paper, clothing, tattoos, rocks
Clay tablets.
You write on a blackboard.
Chalk
Chalk is used on the black board because chalk is easy to write with on a black board.
Chalk
It is easy to write on a rough blackboard. The friction between the chalk and the rough surface is what allows the chalk to leave behind the chalk dust that we see. Actually it would impossible to write on a theoretically smooth blackboard. Without the friction, the chalk would not leave any residue!
To write and draw with chalk for educational, personal, entertainment, or commercial uses.
Well you see, as the chalk rubs against the blackboard bits of it get left behind, showing you what your teacher thinks your cursive should look like, or a new trick when dividing big numbers.
Assuming you mean chalk, as in what you write with on a blackboard, then the two ways are "la tiza" and "el gis." El gis is used in Mexico.
Chalk is softer than the slate (real or artificial) used on blackboards, so it will flake off as you write. Granite is harder than slate and will not flake, but rather cut into or mark the slate permanently.
M.Hamel wrote "Vive la France!" on the blackboard before dismissing the last class.
say for example, instead of a stick of chalk you have powder. Each bit of powder is a particle of chalk, and if you dip your finger into the powder, you can still write on the blackboard with it.
A blackboard is a piece of slate stone on which people can write multiple times and erase what they wrote. One can use chalk to write on the surface and then remove it easily even with bare hands.