Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Textbooks from other times & places/ Manuels scolaires dailleurs et d'autrefois

•Sample pages from Robert Recorde's The Grounde of Artes (1632), one of the first mathematics 'textbooks' in English
Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Witte (full text)

Swetz & Katz Mathematical Treasures online catalogue of historical math books

Cover of the English edition of Legendre (1825) Elements of Geometry

Wentworth (US, 1894) First Steps in Algebra
Boyden (US, 1895) A First Book in Algebra
Rivenburg (1914, US) A Review of Algebra

Common & Foreign Exchange Arithmetic (Canada, Shaw Schools, 1920s?)

Social Arithmetic selections part 1 (US, 1926)
Social Arithmetic selections part 2 (US, 1926)

A mathematics (and other) textbook from Franco's Spain, 1954: Enciclopedia Practica del Parvulo
From Spain (year?): Problemas Salvatella

















Cover and table of contents from a New Math parents' guide, US, 1964
Modern Algebra and Trigonometry part 2 (Dolciani et al, US,1963).
• La mathématique...renouvellée (Hamel & Lunkenbein, Montréal 1972)

Mathematics: A Human Endeavor (Harold R. Jacobs, US, 1970) part 1
Part 2

• Mathquest 8 (Addison-Wesley publishers, Canada, 1988)

Mathématèque 5 (Montréal 1991)

Math that matters (Stocker, 2006, Toronto)
• Precalculus 11 (McGraw Hill Ryerson publishers, Canada, 2011)

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