Book, The Appleton Arithmetics, Third Book
Book, The Appleton Arithmetics, Third Book
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- Description
- 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).
- This is a clean copy.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Book
- Date made
- 1912
- Young, J. W. A.
- Jackson, Lambert L.
- publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- cloth (binding material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 2 cm x 13.7 cm x 19 cm; 25/32 in x 5 13/32 in x 7 15/32 in
- ID Number
- 1982.3001.10
- catalog number
- 1982.3001.10
- nonaccession number
- 1982.3001
- Credit Line
- Gift of Arthur Skebeck
- subject
- Mathematics
- Education
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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