Primary Mathematics
Publisher: Wikibooks 2012
Description:
This book focuses on primary school mathematics for students, whether children or adults. It is assumed that no calculators are used, to encourage mental arithmetic. This course attempts to use as much lay language as possible to also be helpful to parents who are sometimes baffled by the 'New Math'.
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