Book, The Teachers' Assistant: or a System of Practical Arithmetic
date: label: Date made
content: 1835
name: label: author
content: Pike, Stephen
notes: label: Description
content: Stephen Pike (died 1826) first published <I>The Teachers’ Assistant or a System of Practical Arithmetic. . .</I> in Philadelphia in 1811. At that time, he proudly boasted in the title that a variety of his examples were in “federal money.” This phrase remained in the title through several subsequent editions of the volume (and even more printings), including this one from 1835. Pike favored a listing of rules and examples, followed by a list of questions with answers provided.
label: Description
content: This example is missing the front cover and held together with tape.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Louis C. Karpinski, <I>A Listing of Mathematical Works Published in America through1850</I>, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1940, pp. 185-186.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
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: 1982.3001.02
label: catalog number
content: 1982.3001.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 1982.3001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.8 cm x 11 cm x 16.5 cm; 23/32 in x 4 11/32 in x 6 1/2 in