{ "item_title" : "Malinin & Burenin Collection of Arithmetic Problems", "item_author" : [" K. Burenin", "Valery Manokhin", "A. Malinin "], "item_description" : "The largest Russian arithmetic problem collection in English - 3,807 problems, with the complete answer key. For fifty years this was the book Russian schoolchildren worked through. Malinin and Burenin's Collection of Arithmetic Problems ran to dozens of editions between the 1860s and the Revolution - the mark of a book teachers kept ordering because it worked. This is the first time the collection has appeared in English in full. The companion to Malinin and Burenin's Arithmetic. Malinin and Burenin wrote a course of arithmetic to teach the method; this is the book of practice that went with it. Its chapters follow the textbook's own order - numeration, the four operations on whole numbers, compound denominate numbers, divisors, common fractions, decimal fractions, continued fractions, ratios, proportions and the rule of three - so the two books are worked side by side. The course explains; this one drills. What's inside:- 3,807 numbered problems in fifty-one sections- The complete answer key - every answer the original printed- Problems that move from single-technique drill to multi-step questions, where the reader must decide which method applies before applying it- Percentage, interest and alligation within the rules of three Arithmetic through the world of 1906. Grain moves in poods and cloth in arshins; journeys are measured in versts; there is interest on capital, the alloying of silver, the discounting of bills. The units are not decoration: working in poods and zolotniks forces the arithmetic of compound numbers to be done properly - exactly the skill the decimal system lets a modern student skip. Why a collection this size matters. Most problem books give one or two examples of a technique and move on. At 3,807 problems this one gives as many as a learner needs - enough for a teacher to set fresh work for years, and enough for a student who is shaky on a topic to stay on it until it is not. Because the answer key is complete, a self-learner can work the whole book without a teacher. Also works beside Kiselev's Arithmetic, for readers who want a second, larger collection with answers. Ideal for: teachers who want problems with more substance than a modern worksheet, homeschool families running a classical curriculum, students who want arithmetic drilled properly without a calculator, and anyone curious about how a nineteenth-century Russian school taught a child to think in numbers. 282 pages - 7 10 in. Translated and edited by Valery Manokhin, PhD. Part of Russian Math Classics - English Editions. Published by Northern Star Academic Press. Full catalogue at russianmathbooks.com.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/91/901/248/1919012486_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "49.94", "online_price" : "49.94", "our_price" : "49.94", "club_price" : "49.94", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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