📚 Arithmetic

The four operations and the algorithms that teach them, from Reckoning with the Abacus to the finger-counting revival.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject arithmetic in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The schoolmasters assistant	Thomas Dilworth	1744	128
	The North American arithmetic	Frederick Emerson	1829	77
	Primary Mathematics (SPMG)	Scottish Primary Mathematics Group	1984	66
	Addison-Wesley Mathematics	Robert E. Eicholz	1985	54
	A natural approach to mathematics	Harold William Clayton	1965	51
	Collins Primary Maths	Peter Clarke	1999	47
	The tutor's assistant	Francis Walkingame	1751	44
	Schoolmaster's assistant	Nathan Daboll	1800	40
	Rapid maths	Rose Griffiths	2009	36
	A treatise on arithmetic	J. Hamblin Smith	1877	35
	The young mathematician's guide	John Ward (of Chester)	1707	34
	Mathematics for schools	Harold Fletcher	1970	34
	Basic Skills	Paul Broadbent	1998	28
	Infant Mathematics (SPMG)	Scottish Primary Mathematics Group	1980	26
	A new system of mercantile arithmetic	Walsh, Michael	1801	22
	Key to the North American Arithmetic	Frederick Emerson	1833	22
	The Higher Arithmetic	Harold Davenport	1952	21
	Maths Made Easy (Carol Vorderman's Maths Made Easy)	Carol Vorderman	1920	20
	Naive Set Theory	Paul R. Halmos	1960	18
	Grundlagen der Arithmetik	Gottlob Frege	1950	16
	Read-Think-Do Math	TEACHER CREATED RESOURCES	2006	16
	Intellectual arithmetic	Warren Colburn	1826	13
	Error patterns in computation	Robert B. Ashlock	1972	13
	Arithmetic we need	Guy T. Buswell	1955	12
	Prealgebra	K. Elayn Martin-Gay	1993	12
	Arithmetic for the practical man	James Edgar Thompson	1931	11
	Basic College Mathematics	Richard N. Aufmann	1991	11
	Number, the language of science	Tobias Dantzig	1930	10
	Realm of numbers	Isaac Asimov	1959	10
	Developmental Mathematics :	Michael Sullivan III	2014	10

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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