Book, The Complete Arithmetic Oral and Written
date: label: Date made
content: 1881
name: label: author
content: Maglathlin, Henry Bartlett
label: publisher
content: Leach Shewell and Sanborn
notes: label: Description
content: Henry Bartlett Maglathlin prepared this work "on the basis of" textbooks by Benjamin Greenleaf", a widely-known author. Although Maglathlin retained the topics covered by Greenleaf in <I>National Arithmetic</I> (except for natural philosophy and astronomy), he appears to have extended the discussions of fractions and finance and reduced the material on decimals. He moved several subjects to an appendix, including gauging, Roman numerals, repeating decimals, and series. Maglathlin numbered the exercises in each unit and the paragraphs throughout the entire book consecutively. He also made substantial use of boldface. He added potential test questions and also collected problems from the entrance examinations at seven colleges-Ivy League schools and the State University of New York. On page 49, an overhead bar is used to change the order of operations in the exercises (directing the student to add before multiplying, etc.).
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content: One other interesting feature is that the book announces on the cover that it is published "with answers," without any of the dire warnings issued by other publishers, such as A. S. Barnes & Co., that only teachers were authorized to read the key.
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content: This book is signed by Rufus H. Allen, a teacher living in 1892, and Arthur E. Morrell of Norwich, Maine. It is not clear whether Morrell was Allen's student. There are several miscellaneous pencil markings throughout the book. There is an obituary of Maglathlin in the <I>Wareham (Massachusetts) Courier</I>, 24 February 1910, p. 6.
label: Description
content: See also 1982.3001.04 and 334401.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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: 1982.3001.07
label: catalog number
content: 1982.3001.07
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: 2.8 cm x 13.5 cm x 19 cm; 1 3/32 in x 5 5/16 in x 7 15/32 in