Re: Elements of Mathematics (MS 165)

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NEM 2, p. 3
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PREFACE (1) (164)

This text-book contains all the mathematics which can conveniently be taught in the common schools, excepting practical arithmetic.  It is so written that any one of its principal facts may be omitted in teaching.  Teachers need not be informed that there is no elementary subject  which has advanced so much of late years as geometry.  No recent writers approve of putting beginners into metrics at the outset;  but as circumstances sometimes compel the use of the old system, this work has been so arranged that the preliminary work, which saves a great deal of time in the end and often makes the difference between learning geometry agreeably and never learning it at all, but only learning to loathe it, can be passed by, if need be.

To what can be taught in the schools will here be found appended further information sure to be useful to the scholar in after-life, if he has prudently preserved his school-books....

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On Jul 9, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Jon Awbrey wrote:

> Peircers,
> 
> Here is the table of contents from MS 165 plus additional drafts that Carolyn Eisele published in NEM 2.
> 
> Elements of Mathematics (165)
> Preface (1) (164)
> Preface (2) (94a)
> 1.  Introduction, on Mathematics in General
> 2.  Sequences
> 3.  The Fundamental Operations in Algebra
> 4.  Factors
> 5.  Negative Numbers
> 6.  Fractional Quantities
> 7.  Simple Equations
> 8.  Ratios and Proportions
> 9.  Surds
> 10.  Topical Geometry
> 11. Graphics and Perspective
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jon