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Number Stories of Long Ago (Color Edition) (Yesterday's Classics)

by David Eugene Smith

A history of numbers told through stories and puzzles

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A history of numbers told through stories and puzzles

David Eugene Smith presents the history of number-writing and calculation as a sequence of tales shared by a Story-Teller with children gathered around a fire. Examples include writing on palm leaves, bricks, and parchment, alongside changing methods of addition, multiplication, and division. Questions at the end of each evening invite further thought, and a final section collects number puzzles and curious problems. The book connects mathematical ideas with the ways people recorded and worked with numbers in earlier times.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in mathematics and its history.
  • Readers who enjoy learning through historical stories and examples.
  • Puzzle enthusiasts looking for number problems to consider.

Themes

History of numbersWriting and representing numbersArithmetic methodsMathematical puzzles

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Book overview

Join the Story-Teller as night after night he entertains a crowd of children gathered round the fire with stories of what might really have happened when the world was young. He shares stories of how boys and girls used to write numbers in long ago times, with Ching writing on palm leaves, Lugal on bricks, and Hippias on parchment. And how through the ages they devised various ways of adding, multiplying, and div-iding. At the close of each evening he leaves the children with questions to ponder or situations to puzzle over. The book concludes with a series of number puzzles and curious problems for further reflection by all ages.

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