A Practical Primary Arithmetic

2015-06-25 • 191 pages • EN

Written by M. C. S. Noble

Excerpt from A Practical Primary Arithmetic This elementary Arithmetic has been prepared with the hope of giving to little children a First Book in Arithmetic in which they may learn with interest and pleasure the fundamental arithmetical processes and their expression by means of figures and symbols, and, at the same time, become acquainted with many helpful facts and much useful information. Therefore many of the problems are based on nature study and practical everyday life. Too often the study of Arithmetic is dull and uninteresting because of the subject matter, - the fault being not in the principles of arithmetic, but in the thought content of the problems. The authors have therefore purposely introduced from time to time carefully prepared oral exercises, which they believe will interest, as well as drill and instruct, the pupil. It is hoped that these will relieve the tedium of the steady "grind" so often found in the teaching of arithmetic. The general plan has been to present by itself Addition, as far as five; next, to present Addition and Subtraction together through eighteen. It will be noticed that in such subtractions as nothing is said about "borrowing," because the pupil has just learned that 17 is the sun of 9 and 8, etc. "Borrowing" is explained later on int the book. 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.