The schoolmaster's assistant
Subtitle: being a compendium of arithmetic, both practical and theoretical : in five parts ... the whole being delivered in the most familiar way of question and answer, is recommended by several eminent mathematicians, accomptants, and schoolmasters as necessary to be used in schools by all teachers who would have their scholars thoroughly understand and make a quick progress in arithmetic
By: by Thomas Dilworth ...
Contributors: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed and sold by Peter Brynberg
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Wilmington [Del.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.; Arithmetic -- Examinations, questions, etc.
Genres: Early works to 1900.; Examinations, questions, etc.
Notes: LC copy has inscription: Rebecca Dorsey.
Evans 30352
Signatures: A-K⁶ L-M² N⁶ O⁴ P⁶ Q⁴ R-S⁶ T⁴(-T4).
LC copy imperfect: p. 127-130 wanting; p. 15-18, 27-28 torn with loss of text. According to Karpinski's Bibliography of mathematical works printed in America through 1950, LC copy lacks xii p. at beginning, leaf at end of text, and frontispiece.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) Containing: I. Arithmetic in whole numbers wherein all the common rules, having each of them a sufficient number of questions with their answers, are methodically and briefly handled; title: II. Vulgar fractions, wherein several things not commonly met with are there distinctly treated of and laid down in the most plain and easy manner; title: III. Decimals in which, among other things, are considered the extraction of roots, interest, both simple and compound, annuities, rebate and equation of payments; title: IV. A large collection of questions with their answers serving to exercise the foregoing rules, together with a few others both pleasant and diverting; title: V. Duodecimals, commonly called cross multiplication, wherein that sort of arithmetic is throughly considered and rendered very plain and easy, together with the method of proving all the foregoing operations at once by division of several denominations without reducing them to the lowest term mentioned.