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Book Title: Addition and Subtraction Applied to Clocks : An Arithmetic Workbook to Practice Adding and Subtracting Hours and Minutes to and from Time
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Publication Year: 2010
Topic: Mathematics / Arithmetic
Item Height: 0.3 in
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
Item Weight: 13.5 Oz
Author: Chris Mcmullen
Item Length: 10 in
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
