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Arithmetic

Arithmetic
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by Paul Lockhart

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  • Title Arithmetic
  • Author Paul Lockhart
  • Binding Papeback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Belknap
  • Publication date Reprint edition NO-PA16APR2
  • Features Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6386991656
  • ISBN 9780674237513 / 067423751X
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
  • Category Mathematics
  • Library of Congress subjects Arithmetic, Arithmetic - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 513
  • Quantity available 3

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This seller has earned a 3.93 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
3.93 / 5 (248 total reviews)

Readers describe a lively, concept-first tour of arithmetic that blends history, number systems, and clear explanations of standard algorithms with playful prompts. Many found it engaging and useful for teachers, parents, and curious adults or older kids. Critiques focused on an inconsistent target audience, repetitive coverage of elementary material, a rushed treatment of later topics like negatives and combinatorics, occasional condescension, and scant sourcing for historical claims.

Readers say this book is:
witty accessible playful insightful historically rich engaging exercises quick read repetitive too basic for experts uneven pacing

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From the publisher

"Inspiring and informative...deserves to be widely read."
--Wall Street Journal

"This fun book offers a philosophical take on number systems and revels in the beauty of math."
--Science News

Because we have ten fingers, grouping by ten seems natural, but twelve would be better for divisibility, and eight is well suited to repeated halving. Grouping by two, as in binary code, has turned out to have its own remarkable advantages.

Paul Lockhart presents arithmetic not as rote manipulation of numbers--a practical if mundane branch of knowledge best suited for filling out tax forms--but as a fascinating, sometimes surprising intellectual craft that arises from our desire to add, divide, and multiply important things. Passionate and entertaining, Arithmetic invites us to experience the beauty of mathematics through the eyes of a beguiling teacher.

"A nuanced understanding of working with numbers, gently connecting procedures that we once learned by rote with intuitions long since muddled by education...Lockhart presents arithmetic as a pleasurable pastime, and describes it as a craft like knitting."
--Jonathon Keats, New Scientist

"What are numbers, how did they arise, why did our ancestors invent them, and how did they represent them? They are, after all, one of humankind's most brilliant inventions, arguably having greater impact on our lives than the wheel. Lockhart recounts their fascinating story...A wonderful book."
--Keith Devlin, author of Finding Fibonacci

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