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The Teaching of Arithmetic through Four Hundred Years By the Sarme Author THE STORY-OF RECKONING IN THE MIDDLE AGES Crown Svo. 96 pages, 38. 6d. "A scholarly work, delightfully written." Matkemat,eal Gazette TITLE-PAGE OF "AN INTRODUCTION FOR TO LEHNE TO RECKEN," 1539 EDITION By courtesy of the Bodleian Llltrary, Oxford The Teaching of Arithmetic through Four Hundred Years (15~~:-1935) BY FLORENCE A. YELDHAM B.Sc. Ph.D. GEORGE G. HARRAP &; 00. LTD. LONDON BOMBAY SYDNEY Fir,t pu~I'8hed 1936 by GEORGE G. HARRAP 6-CO. LTD. 182 High Bolbom, Londan, W.C.I CoPVright. All riuhts re8eTt·ed • MADE IN GREAT IlRITAJN. PUNTED AT THE PITMAN PRllSS, BATB ACKNOWLEDGMENT I AM greatly indebted to Professor Neville, of Reading University, Librarian of the Mathematical Associa tion, and to Mr W. S. Wright, Librarian of Dulwich College, for the loan of many of the books from which this history is drawn. Dr Ballard and his publishers, the University of London Press, have most kindly allowed me to repro duce a page from The Child's First Number Book. My grateful thanks are due also to the Secretary of the Bodleian Library for his assistance in ,finding an illustration from An Introductionfor to Lerne to Recken with the Pen. The oecasional mention of Arithmetical Books, by A. De Morgan, as the source of information of a passage does not cover the use which has been made of this valuable book of reference. F.A. Y. 5 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAOli I. THE REASON FOR STUDYING ARITHMETIC 9 II. TONS TALL 19 III. RECORDE 30 IV. HYLLES, WINGATE, OUGHTRED, AND JAGER 51 V. COCKER 75 VI. WARD AND MALCOLM 88 VII. VYSE AND CHAPPELL 105 VIII. BONNYCASTLE, DE MORGAN, SANG, AND no OTHERS IX. THE EXERCISE BOOK 126 X. ARITHMETIC IN RECENT YEARS 131 INDEX 141 7
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