It All Starts with Counting
A Short Guide to Old-Fashioned Arithmetic and Other Mathematical Concepts
by Edgar Bennett Bloom

• The title says it all. The woman who typed this manuscript, a college senior in dairy science with several math courses in her background, was frequently heard to mutter as she went through the pages: “I never knew that” or “Nobody ever told me that.”

• Includes plenty of “story” problems, with space for working them out, and often a step-by-step solution process. Sample (page 77): “A merchant bought a piano for $6,000. He wanted his profit to be one-fifth of the selling price. Find the selling price.” This problem is worked out, step by step, directly on the page, as are a number of others in the section “Solving Problems using Fractions.”

• Dr. Bloom taught chemistry and math, and sometimes other subjects, at universities and public schools in Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. At age 93, he was still hearing from former students, one of whom wrote, in 1992: “If I hadn’t been so far along in my major, Physics, I would have switched to Chemistry after taking your course in the summer of 1964.”

• ISBN 978-0-936015-26-2
  • viii + 122 pages, 8 1/2 inches x 11 inches, spiral bound
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