Elements of Arithmetic

by Horace Mann

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266 pages, Paperback

Published February 26, 2010

About the author

Horace Mann (1796 – 1859) was an American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting public education. He served in the Massachusetts State legislature (1827–37). In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives (1848–53). About Mann’s intellectual progressivism, the historian Ellwood P. Cubberley said:

"No one did more than he to establish in the minds of the American people the conception that education should be universal, non-sectarian, free, and that its aims should be social efficiency, civic virtue, and character, rather than mere learning or the advancement of education ends."

Arguing that universal public education was the best way to turn unruly American children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens, Mann won widespread approval from modernizers, especially in the Whig Party, for building public schools. Most states adopted a version of the system Mann established in Massachusetts, especially the program for normal schools to train professional teachers. Educational historians credit Horace Mann as father of the Common School Movement.

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Reviews

[Suheyl · Rating 4 out of 5]

While this book is a great introduction into arithmetic for someone who is literally in elementary school, It provides next to no extra value to say a modern book or KhanAcademy. This makes it, together with the difficult to read writing for a modern reader, not a good idea to read. The book is almost exclusively filled with elementary rules, followed by constant practice, with no real advanced methods being taught (which is what I originally looked into this book for).