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Practical Arithmetic, comprising all the rules for transacting business, executed at Mrs. Rowson's academy
Bound manuscript of arithmetic textbook created by student in Susanna Rowson's academy for girls in Boston. Handwritten book is simultaneously an exercise in learning math, penmanship, and business genres.
Multiplication Table Tree
Multiplication table illustrated on the roots of an Indian Banyan tree, with accompanying tables and descriptions
Musical Multiplication Table
Poster with score for singing and playing multiplication song, followed by times table.
Rotary Multiplication Table
Rotary dial used to solve simple multiplication problems. In each tiny circular window that appear as a spiraled series, the product of the two aligned numbers around the outside of dial appear.
The Young Lady's Arithmetic; containing an epitome of definitions, rules, and examples, which explain in a familiar, concise, and easy manner, the first principal and common use of numbers.
A mathematical textbook targeted specifically to women
Practical Arithmetic; comprising all the rules for transacting business. Executed at Mrs. Rowson's Academy
A manuscript copybook created by a student at Susanna Rowson's academy for girls in Boston. The manuscript seems to be at once an exercise in penmanship and in learning math and other commercial practices and genres, perhaps following the principal…
The Wonderful Advantages of Adventuring in the Lottery
Story about the dangers of participating in the lottery, includes hand painted illustrations.
He Helu Kamali
Mathematics textbook in Hawaiian used to teach math and commerce at a missionary school in Honolulu
Schoolmaster’s Assistant; being a compendium of arithmetic, both practical and theoretical, 17th edition
Mathematics textbook, 17th edition, published in Philadelphia, 1773