This paper documents a study concerned with examining the affective response to mathematics among 45 primary school students. The study sought to examine how the children's emerging beliefs, attitudes and feelings about mathematics impacted on their learning of the subject. A particular finding was that these beliefs, attitudes and feelings were…

This textbook is an introductory mathematics course. It is a treatise of arithmetic, containing all the practical parts thereof; both in whole numbers, vulgar fractions, and decimals; likewise the theory of numbers, and their principal properties, demonstrated in a plain and easy manner.

This arithmetic textbook uses small concrete numbers to lead pupils to understanding numbers' properties and relations. This work is intended as a connecting link between the Primary and Written Arithmetics of the Author. It presents a mental analysis of Arithmetic adapted to the younger pupils by its easy gradations, and to advanced pupils by its…

Research investigating the performance of students in grades 4 through 7 on varying items involving the distributive property is reported; results, showing low performance levels, are analyzed. (DT)

Methods of finding the total number of gifts given in The Twelve Days of Christmas'' are described. (DT)

Strategies for winning in the game of NIM are discussed and explained through applying a base 2 representation for the numbers involved. (DT)