Before there were apps for tablets and smartphones, before mathematics education software was easily installed on personal computers, before electronic calculators entered professional practice and ...

From cursive drills to slide-rule math, many classroom skills Boomers mastered aren’t required today. These eight near-obsolete habits reveal how schools—and work—changed, and what modern equivalents ...

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While some (math-phobics) still may relish the simple beauty and non-threatening functionality of the abacus, there are those who have made the transition to more challenging computing gadgets—many ...

MESSRS. JOHN DAVIS AND SON, of Derby, the A well known instrument makers, are bringing out a variation of the slide rule which is likely to. increase its value for certain classes of calculation ...

MESSRS. J. J. GRIFFIN AND SONS, LTD., of Kingsway, London, have sent examples of two slide-rules which they are introducing at a very low price—the longer one, which is 25 cm. in length, at 2s., and ...