Can you spot the connections among numbers? By Marcel Danesi, Ph.D. in Brain Workout The word arithmetic comes from Greek arithmētikē, which is itself made up of two words, arithmos “number” and ...

Around 1900 many American educators advocated the use of objects in teaching mathematics and the sciences. R. O. Evans Company of Chicago published this set of twenty chromolithographed charts. They ...

Many nineteenth-century educators believed that a careful study of arithmetic contributed to general mental discipline among students. To improve such teaching, several inventors proposed special ...

The results of an online survey reveal a world in love with numbers that stand out and feel exceptional ...

THESE examples, with the exception of one paper, are taken from the author's “Arithmetical Types and Examples” recently noticed in these columns. The exercises are numerous and well graded, and in ...