Could you pass a medieval math exam? Full video on my YouTube channel (Tibees). I learned the correct way to pronounce ducats by the time I made the YouTube version #math #historyofmath

Could you pass a medieval math exam? This is a medieval school textbook. It was printed in 1478 and contains lots of exam style problems for teachers to use. This is an English translation. It was used in Italian abacco schools where students who were typically boys aged 11 to 16 and the sons of merchants, shopkeepers and artisans will be schools were preparing them for trade, bookkeeping and commercial travel. Here's some example problems. One, if one yard of crimson is worth five dukets, what will 85 yards be worth? Two, if a hundred pounds of sugar are worth 32 dukets, what will 9,812 pounds be worth? Three, a hair is 150 paces ahead of a hound which pursues him. The hair covers six paces while the hound covers ten. How many paces has the hound made when he overtakes the hair? Solutions to these problems and more are in the latest long form video on the YouTube channel.