Kántor-Varga, Tünde2024-09-042024-09-042003-06-01Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2003) , 73-1101589-7389https://hdl.handle.net/2437/379496In the Great Library of the Debrecen Reformed College (Hungary) we find a lot of old mathematical textbooks. We present: Arithmetic of Debrecen (1577), Maróthi's Arithmetic (1743), Hatvani's introductio (1757), Karacs's Figurae Geometricae (1788), Segner's Anfangsgründe (1764) and Mayer's Mathematischer Atlas (1745). These old mathematical textbooks let us know facts about real life of the 16-18th centuries, the contemporary level of sciences, learning and teaching methods. They are rich sources of motivation in the teaching of mathematics.application/pdfold Hungarian mathematical textbooksinteraction with other subjectslower and middle secondaryfolyóiratcikkOpen AccessTünde Kántor-Vargahttps://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2003.0005Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science11Teach. Math. Comp. Sci.2676-8364