The schoolmasters assistant : being a compendium of arithmetic, both practical and theoretical. In five parts. 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. 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, Interest, both Simple and Compound; Annuities, Rebate and Equation of Payments. IV. A large Collection 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 Arithmetle 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. The whole being delivered in the most familiar way of Question and Answer, is recommended by several eminent Mathemeticians, Accomptants, and Schoolmasters, as necessary to be used in Schools, by all Teachers who would have their Scholars throughly understand, and make a quick Progress in Arithmetic. To which is prefixed, an essay on the education of youth; humbly offered to the Consideration of Parents. By Thomas Dilworth, Author of the New Guide to the English Tongue; Young Book-Keeper's Assistant, &c. and Schoolmaster in Wapping.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dilworth, Thomas, -1780.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

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Dilworth, Thomas, -1780--Portraits.

Dilworth, Thomas.

Dilworth, Thomas, -1780.

Arithmetic--Before 1846.

Arithmetic.

Genre:

Portraits.

Physical Description:

xiv pages, 10 unnumbered pages,192 pages,table ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

Paisley : printed by Alex. Weir, Bookseller, M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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English Short Title Catalog, N21621.

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