The Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics
Published on 29. June 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-285-62916-5 (ISBN)
Description
Do high-speed, complicated arithmetic in your head using the Trachtenberg Speed System.
Ever find yourself struggling to check a bill or a payslip? With The Trachtenberg Speed System you can. Described as the 'shorthand of mathematics', the Trachtenberg system only requires the ability to count from one to eleven. Using a series of simplified keys it allows anyone to master calculations, giving greater speed, ease in handling numbers and increased accuracy.
Jakow Trachtenberg believed that everyone is born with phenomenal abilities to calculate. He devised a set of rules that allows every child to make multiplication, division, addition, subtraction and square-root calculations with unerring accuracy and at remarkable speed. It is the perfect way to gain confidence with numbers.
Ever find yourself struggling to check a bill or a payslip? With The Trachtenberg Speed System you can. Described as the 'shorthand of mathematics', the Trachtenberg system only requires the ability to count from one to eleven. Using a series of simplified keys it allows anyone to master calculations, giving greater speed, ease in handling numbers and increased accuracy.
Jakow Trachtenberg believed that everyone is born with phenomenal abilities to calculate. He devised a set of rules that allows every child to make multiplication, division, addition, subtraction and square-root calculations with unerring accuracy and at remarkable speed. It is the perfect way to gain confidence with numbers.
Reviews / Votes
Teachers should read this book ... which could well revolutionise the teaching of mathematics in the future * Teachers' World * Even in the age of the calculator this new ... edition is well worth reading and the challenge of teaching the method to children who find arithmetic difficult is one which an adventurous teacher might well find rewarding -- John Dunford * The Mathematical Gazette *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 128 mm
Width: 195 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
198 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-285-62916-5 (9780285629165)
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The Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics
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Persons
Jakow Trachtenberg was a Jewish mathematician who developed the mental calculation techniques called the Trachtenberg system. He was born in Odessa, the Russian empire in 1988 and worked as an engineer in the Obukhov arms factory. He was a dedicated pacifist and instrumental in organising the Society of Good Samaritans when the First World War broke out. After the Russian revolutions of 1917, Trachtenberg fled to the Weimar Republic where he was later critical of Nazi policies and imprisoned in a concentration camp during World War II. He developed his system of mathematics during his imprisonment. He died in 1953.