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An Investigation into Multiplication* I. The Multiplication of Decimals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

H. Webb
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There is probably no other item of the arithmetic syllabus which is confronted by such a diversity of earnestly supported method as is the case with the multiplication of decimals.

The problems which form the basis of this investigation are :

  1. (a) What are the special advantages and disadvantages which bring about the adoption or rejection of these methods?

  2. (b) What is the extent of these advantages and disadvantages?

  3. (c) And finally a consideration of the methods of overcoming the disadvantages.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 24 , Issue 259 , May 1940 , pp. 86 - 102
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1940

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Footnotes

*

I should like to take this opportunity of thanking Mrs. Linfoot, Secretary of the Bristol Branch of the Mathematical Association, for much helpful advice and criticism during the progress of this work.

References

page no 86 note † See the Mathematical Gazette, May 1930, pp. 103-110. It may be a help to other students to know that I was able to see these back copies of the Mathematical Gazette through the courtesy of the National Central Library who obtained them for me from the Science Museum, South Kensington.

page no 88 note * A list of schools, and an indication of the method of multiplication of decimals adopted by them, is given at the end of this article.