The schoolmaster's assistant : 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, recommended by several eminent mathematicians, accountants 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 added, An essay on the education of youth : humbly offered to the consideration of parents / by Thomas Dilworth.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Dilworth, Thomas, -1780.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 19966.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.

Arithmetic.

Physical Description:

xiv, 196 pages : portrait

6x9 in.

monochrome

service copy

positive

Manufacture:

[New-York] : George Long.

Place of Publication:

New-York : E. Duyckinck and R. M'Dermut, 1810.

Contents:

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

II. Vulgar fractions, wherein several things, not commonly met with, are distinctly treated of, and laid down in the most plain and easy manner

III. Decimals, in which, among other things, are considered the extraction of roots. Inteest both simple and compound, annuities, rebate, and equation of payments

IV. A large selection of questions with their answers, serving to exercise the foregoing rules, together with a few others both pleasant and diverting

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.

Notes:

For a listing of titles in each box consult American bibliography : a preliminary checklist for 1801-1819 / compiled by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.

Microopaque. Worcester, Mass. : American Antiquarian Society, 1971. 2 microopaques ; 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 19966)

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker, 19966.

Contains:

Dilworth, Thomas, -1780. Essay on the education of youth. 1810.

OCLC:

15441345