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I was a High School Principal and Mathematics teacher for almost 38 years in three different school districts in Pennsylvania. I was discharged from the military in December 1971 and started teaching on January 2, 1972, at Tyrone Area Jr/Sr High School, Tyrone, located near Penn State University. The administration at Tyrone School District treated me well as evidenced by the fact I was named the Mathematics Department Head at Tyrone in 1978 even though I was not the most senior teacher in the department..
This book is written as a textbook with the intended audience being college juniors and seniors who are preparing to become an elementary arithmetic teacher or a secondary math teacher. Education administrators would also benefit from reading and studying this textbook. If you plan on reading this textbook for relaxation, you might be disappointed, this textbook is a mathematics textbook, and you will have to study and solve the problems if you want to fully grasp the concepts, rules, and procedures which are illustrated throughout the textbook…
I turned the 6-page memorandum which I presented to the math research team at Carnegie Mellon University into two books. The first book which is already published is titled “ONE The Most Powerful Number” which is a college textbook written to help students studying to become an elementary arithmetic teacher or a secondary mathematics teacher, learn how to use concepts in arithmetic and mathematics and then to then develop rules and procedures to solve a wide variety of arithmetic and mathematics problems. The ultimate goal must be to have students “Learn and Remember” concepts, rules, and procedures which should be learned in arithmetic and then apply the same rules and procedures to solve problems in algebra and higher-level math classes.
Rules and procedures which are learned in arithmetic are the foundation for solving higher-level math problems in algebra, precalculus, calculus, etc. Without arithmetic rules and procedures, it would be impossible to solve algebra or high-level math problems.