The schoolmasters assistant
Subtitle: being a compendium of arithmetic, both practical and theoretical, in five parts, containing ... : 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 : to which is prefixt, An essay on the education of youth ...
By: by Thomas Dilworth ...
Contributors: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The latest edition.
Publisher: Printed by John Buel ...
Published: 1793
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.
Genres: Early works to 1900.
Notes: Evans 25400
Statement of responsibility appears after edition statement.
Signatures: A-S⁶.
LC copy has newspaper clippings mounted throughout.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) 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 thoroughly 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 into the lowest terms mentioned.