Dollar Homeschool – Ray’s Arithmetic Review

Ray’s Arithmetic takes students and teachers back in time.  Ray’s was originally created to be used by frontier Americans who often lived in areas where available teachers were few, often far away, or even completely unavailable.

The books are designed to allow children, once they can read, to work independently to a very great extent. Concepts are carefully explained, and all of the subjects follow one after another in a very logical progression, so that the child is never asked to work a type of problem which has not yet been discussed.

The Ray’s Arithmetic cd contains 38 books indexed for easy use.

The books include:

Basic Math

• Primary Arithmetic (95 pages)
• Intellectual Arithmetic (141 pages)
• Elementary Arithmetic (192 pages)
• Practical Arithmetic (337 pages)

Intermediate Math

• Higher Arithmetic (409 pages)
• New Elementary Algebra (241 pages)
• New Higher Algebra (407 pages)
• Test Problems for New Higher Algebra (152 pages)
• A Complete Algebra (359 pages)

Advanced Math

• Treatise Geometry and Trigonometry (421 pages)
• Analytic Geometry (608 pages)
• Differential and Integral Calculus (442 pages)

Additional Texts

• Complete Book Keeping (161 pages)
• Norton’s Elements of Physics (269 pages)
• Schuyler’s Principles of Logic (169 pages)
• Elements of Astronomy (342 pages)
• Surveying and Navigation (492 pages)

Plus more including teacher’s keys…

Anyone starting with Ray’s Arithmetic will want to start with the Manual of Methods. When you first open the cd, all of the information available can be a tad overwhelming.  The Manual of Methods will give you a good starting point as it explains how to use the different books.

Dollar Homeschool has done a great job organizing Ray’s Arithmetic into easy to navigate pdf format on cd.  The cd contains 38 books that cover counting all the way up to calculus.  The scanned images of the original Ray’s Arithmetic books are clear and easy to read (view more samples here).  While I normally really like hard copies of books, this format was very easy to use and didn’t take up more shelf space.

Dollar Homeschool offers Ray’s Arithmetic on cd for $59, and it comes with  a 30 day money back guarantee. Currently, they are also offering free priority mail shipping with your purchase.