Essentials of Arithmetic (Classic Reprint)

This book covers the work in axithmetic that is usually assigned to the fifth and sixth school years. In Grade Vthere is usually a review of the fundamental operations with integers and United States money, a thorough study of the fractions of ordinary business, and a study of the denominate numbera used in practical life. The central feature of the years work, in substantially all schools, is common fractions. In Grade VI the central feature is usually decimal fractions, the other topics being practical measurements, a study of the best ways of solving problems, and an introduction to percentage. These are the topics discussed in the second half of this book, thus adapting it to the work of the sixth school year in all parts of the country. EL aving always advocated the elimination of obsolete matter from arithmetic, as well as from other branches of mathematics, and having repeatedly urged the reduction of the number of separate topics and the avoidance of subjects in which the child has no immediate or remote interest, the authors take pleasure in presenting a series of books containing only those essentials of arithmetic which are needed in common life. More complete courses are offered in other books, but the teacher who sympathizes with the modem trend in education will find in this series all of arithmetic that the pupil must thoroughly know. The arrangement of the book is topical, so that a pupil stays long enough with a subject at one time to acquire that feeling of mastery which is his rht and privilege.
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