Book, The Appleton Arithmetics, Third Book
date: label: Date made
content: 1912
name: label: author
content: Young, J. W. A.
label: author
content: Jackson, Lambert L.
label: publisher
content: D. Appleton and Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is the 1912 printing of a book copyrighted in 1909. The authors are Jacob Albert William Young (1865-1948) , an associate professor of the pedagogy of mathematics at the Univerisy of Chicago, and Lambert L. Jackson (1870-1952) , formerly professor of mathematics at the State Normal School in Brockport, New York, and then an employee of Appleton and Company.According to the preface, the book was to cover material taught in the seventh and eighth grades. The chapters cover fundamental processes, fractions, denominate numbers, equations, percentage, interest and banking, business applications, powers and roots of numbers, and mensuration (including the metric system).
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content: This is a clean copy.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Education
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Arthur Skebeck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.3001.10
label: catalog number
content: 1982.3001.10
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content: 1982.3001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: cloth (binding material)
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content: average spatial: 2 cm x 13.7 cm x 19 cm; 25/32 in x 5 13/32 in x 7 15/32 in