The American Intellectual Arithmetic, Designed for the Use of Schools and Academies
Author : John Fair Stoddard
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Arithmetic
ISBN :
Author : John Fair Stoddard
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Arithmetic
ISBN :
Author : John Fair Stoddard
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Arithmetic
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Author : John Fair Stoddard
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Arithmetic
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Author : Warren Colburn
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 1828
Category : Arithmetic
ISBN :
Author : John Fair Stoddard
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 1851
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Author : Joseph Ray
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Arithmetic
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Author : Joseph Ray
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Arithmetic
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Author : J. Ray
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 1877
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ISBN : 5871266576
Author : Christopher James Phillips
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 12,24 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 022618496X
An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game. This book examines the rise and fall of the new math as a marker of the period's political and social ferment.
Author : Paul Lockhart
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 067423751X
“Inspiring and informative...deserves to be widely read.” —Wall Street Journal “This fun book offers a philosophical take on number systems and revels in the beauty of math.” —Science News Because we have ten fingers, grouping by ten seems natural, but twelve would be better for divisibility, and eight is well suited to repeated halving. Grouping by two, as in binary code, has turned out to have its own remarkable advantages. Paul Lockhart presents arithmetic not as rote manipulation of numbers—a practical if mundane branch of knowledge best suited for filling out tax forms—but as a fascinating, sometimes surprising intellectual craft that arises from our desire to add, divide, and multiply important things. Passionate and entertaining, Arithmetic invites us to experience the beauty of mathematics through the eyes of a beguiling teacher. “A nuanced understanding of working with numbers, gently connecting procedures that we once learned by rote with intuitions long since muddled by education...Lockhart presents arithmetic as a pleasurable pastime, and describes it as a craft like knitting.” —Jonathon Keats, New Scientist “What are numbers, how did they arise, why did our ancestors invent them, and how did they represent them? They are, after all, one of humankind’s most brilliant inventions, arguably having greater impact on our lives than the wheel. Lockhart recounts their fascinating story...A wonderful book.” —Keith Devlin, author of Finding Fibonacci