Many nineteenth-century educators believed that a careful study of arithmetic contributed to general mental discipline among students. To improve such teaching, several inventors proposed special ...

SEVERAL investigations have been carried out on the relative difficulties of learning the various ‘arithmetical facts’ or tautologies contained in the multiplication and addition tables. A variety of ...

Can you spot the connections among numbers? By Marcel Danesi, Ph.D. in Brain Workout The word arithmetic comes from Greek arithmētikē, which is itself made up of two words, arithmos “number” and ...

THIS is a very elementary book, suitable for the use of young boys. It consists of a collection of simple arithmetical examples. The first part deals with examples in simple and compound addition, ...