Ray's Arithmetic

Welcome! This site is dedicated to providing online access — free of charge — to the entire contents of Ray’s New Arithmetic: Primary, Intellectual and Practical (the first three volumes in the series). Ray’s was a comprehensive series of public school math textbooks written by Dr. Joseph Ray, and were used widely throughout the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America. Students can gain a solid foundation in mathematics by learning from one of the most successful, popular and longest-running sets of textbooks ever published. (How many textbooks can you say that about?!) What’s so special about offering FREE online access to these books (downloadable PDFs)? Nothing. Other sites do that.

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