Hamilton's Essentials of Arithmetic, Book 1American Book Company, 1920 - Arithmetic |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
apple balls baskets blackboard bought boys Build the table bushel butter called cents circle column Concord grapes contains Count by 5's cows DIME ONE DIME Divide dollars dozen earned eggs equal EVERYDAY Find her score Find the cost following numbers fourth gallons garden girls Hard Tack hour hand hundred inch stand inches long inches wide jars knitted length Liberty bond Little Bo Peep Measure Memorize this table miles milk Niagara grapes number of square number story nut butter nuts peck pencils pints plums potatoes pound pupils quarts quotient radishes Read Roman number schoolroom Show by adding sold splints square feet square inches Subtract and test table of 2's tens Think third thousand thrift stamps Tim's house week write from dictation Write in figures yards long zeros
Popular passages
Page 172 - TIME 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes =1 hour (hr.) 24...
Page 172 - Thirty days hath September, April. June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Save February, which alone Hath twenty-eight; and one day more "We add to it one year in four.
Page 102 - Dry Measure. — 2 pints = 1 quart; 8 quarts = 1 peck; 4 pecks = 1 bushel. Liquid Measure. — 4 gills = 1 pint; 2 pints = 1 quart; 4 quarts = 1 gallon; 31| gallons = 1 barrel; 2 barrels = 1 hogshead. Long Measure. — 12 inches = 1 foot; 3 feet...
Page 145 - At 8 cents a pound, how many pounds of sugar can be bought for 48 cents ? For 50 cents ? For 58 cents ? For 62 cents ? For 64 cents ? 29.
Page 167 - Measures of length are used in measuring lines or distances. TABLE. 12 inches (in.) = 1 foot (ft.). 3 feet = 1 yard (yd.). 5£ yards, or 16| feet = 1 rod (rd.).
Page 160 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor. The number which shows how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend is called the quotient.
Page 161 - Think how many times the first figure of the divisor is contained in the first figure of the dividend.
Page 155 - The number supposed to be taken is called the multiplicand, the number showing how many times the multiplicand is supposed to be taken is called the multiplier, and the result is called the product.