A complete course in arithmetic, taught the way the Russian school taught it: define it, work it, then reason your way through the problems. <p/>K. N. Rashevsky wrote A Short Course in Arithmetic for readers who had finished school and wanted the whole subject back - ordered, connected and worked through, rather than half-remembered. <p/>What the course covers <p/>- The four operations on whole numbers, with the written methods set out in full
- Named and compound quantities - metric measures, older Russian measures, and conversion between them
- Areas and volumes, worked from drawings
- Divisibility, prime numbers, greatest common divisor and least common multiple
- Common and decimal fractions, including repeating decimals
- Ratio, proportion and proportional division
- Percentage, interest and discount; problems on bills and on mixtures
- Plans, diagrams and graphs - including reading a railway timetable off a graph
>Every method is shown at work. The book turns on more than a hundred worked examples and problems, and its long divisions, column multiplications and subtraction tableaux are printed in full, digit under digit, so that the reasoning stands visible on the page instead of being summarised away. <p/>About the author
>This is a teacher's book, not a theorist's. It was written by someone who had spent decades watching where students actually go wrong, and it shows in the ordering of the material and in the care taken over each worked step. <p/>Readers who reach the chapter on graphs will meet the mail trains running between Moscow and Ranenburg - the line to the author's own town. <p/>About this edition
>Who it is for
>Translated by Valery Manokhin, PhD.
