Essentials of Arithmetic: Advanced Book (Classic Reprint)

There can be no question that the time has passed for mere theory in elementary arithmetic. The good that is in the subject can all be secured from problems representing actual conditions of to-day, together with that drill which is essential to the fixing of habits of accurate and reasonably rapid computation. Therefore the authors have sought to establish true motives for study, to place the pupil face to face with as real issues as possible, to furnish an abundance of drill work, to suggest to the teacher the best plan of carrying out the spirit of the official courses in harmony with this idea. Particular attention is called to two features theL ittle Examinations, which furnish a review of each chapter, and the Review and Drill, which affords a cumulative review of the essentials covered in all the preceding work. In theE eview and Drill will also be found numerous industrial applications and series of problems without numbers. The industrial applications relate to the great industries of the country, including prominently the greatest industry of all, the very important domain of agriculture. The authors hope that teachers who recognize the strong features of the topical arrangement, who wish for an abundance of well-graded problems requiring thought in their solution, who are sympathetic with the movement to replace what is obsolete by the real essentials and the genuine applications of arithmetic to the American life of to-day, who are opposed to certain of the extreme attempts of the present time which are sure to result disastrously to scholarship that such teachers will find in this work a sane, modern, and helpful treatment of the subject.
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