workbooks
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Booklets containing problems and exercises in which a student may directly write or calculate.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Izard arithmetic workbook
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0078
Collection Overview
Arithmetic workbook containing word problems attributed to a member of the Ralph Izard family. Exercises include problems in the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of money (pounds, crowns, guineas, marks, guilders, and other units) and other items. Additional problems pertain to the measurement of cloth, wine, time, land (furlongs, poles, feet, inches), Troy weight (grains, ingots), tare and trett (allowance claimed by the citizens of London on goods), the rule of three...
Dates:
approximately 1800s
Found in:
Special Collections