Excerpt from Practical Methods in Arithmetic The ability to perform the fundamental operations is best secured by abundant practice in working a great many examples containing small numbers, combined with the necessary drill in the tables. All time spent in the endeavor to learn the reasons underlying the processes is wasted, as is the time devoted to the memorizing of definitions, rules, and the like. There should be a definite reason for the introduction of each form of weighing, measuring, paper folding, etc. The. Time at which each Should be commenced should be determined, as well as the time for its discontinuance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Practical Arithmetic The two books of the series, for unity of method, have the definitions and drill exercises of the one corresponding with those of the other. Each, however, is provided with business forms, etc., and is complete in itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The New Method Arithmetic We think it will be conceded that in any branch of education the main idea should be to impress principles, and to so arrange details that the principles are not lost sight of in a confusing mass of detail. Who has not met the boy in school who felt that he was strong on profit and loss, but to whom commission and brokerage was always a difficulty. Is this a fault in the boy or in the system under which he has been instructed P We think that the system must shoulder the blame. There is no difference, in a proper arrangement of the study of arithmetic, between profit and loss and commission and brokerage. When we set up these two applica tions of percentage as separate departments of the work, we are simply transgressing a first principle in properly presenting the subject. The detail of profit and loss and commission and broker age is made to overshadow the principle of percentage, of which such work is a mere application. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The New Methods in Arithmetic The present volume deals with somewhat the Same material, but from the point of View of the working teacher or student in a normal school seeking direct help in understanding the newer methods and using them under ordinary conditions Of classroom instruction. NO knowledge Of psychology is assumed as a requirement for profitable study Of this book. Discus sions Of the general psychological basis of the new methods and Of the evidence in their favor are here omitted or much Simplified. The treatment is constructive throughout. The practical consequences are treated more specifically and with abundant detailed illustration and application. In order to aid the teacher still further in putting the new principles Of teaching into active Operation, each chapter is accompanied by exercises, which are even more detailed and concrete in nature than the text. The choice Of textbook material for illustrations of current practice in the text and for various uses in the exercises requires a word Of explanation. As a matter Of scientific care and of convenience to the student almost all of this material is taken from the same textbook. Scientifically this is almost necessary; for a procedure that is correct in one total teaching plan might be weak or even wrong in a different total teaching plan. Each detail of method ought to be judged with reference to its setting. All the details presented here are parts Of one same teaching plan or textbook - all belong in the same setting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Practical Arithmetic: Oral and Written IN accordance with the opinions of leading students of pedagogy. And with the courses of study in the best schools of this country, the first two books of this series are arranged on the spiral plan, and the third book, for the seventh and eighth grades, on the topical plan. The Werner Arithmetic, Book III, of which this is a revision, was a combination of the spiral and the topical methods, with emphasis on the latter. Further experience and observation lead the author to a strictly topical arrangement of the subjects in this book. No effort whatever has been made to follow the lead of some recently published arithmetics and make the book an encyclopedia of geographical, historical, and statistical number facts. It is a pedagogical axiom that the concrete illustrations of number relations that are most helpful in giving the pupil a clear conception of the facts and processes of arithmetic are those with which the student is already somewhat familiar or those with which he feels the need of becoming familiar. The correlation of the work in arithmetic with the work in geography and history is often desirable and helpful; but this should be incidental should be brought to, the attention of the pupil in connection with the quantitative incidents of geography and history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.