Bobbs-Merrill Arithmetics, Volume 1Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1927 - Arithmetic This series of arithmetics makes a carefully planned attempt to combine the psychology of number-learning with the best experience of successful class-room practice. The principle employed is that the primary purpose of arithmetic is to put in the hands of the child a well-mastered tool for use in the practical affairs of his every-day living. |
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_cents 25 cents 36 children ACCURACY DRILLS acre apples average bank bean bag blackboard bottles bought boys bushels candy cards CENT UNITED Charles Check your answer child clothes-pins Constance Constance's cookies costs 4 cents Count dimes Divide divisor dollar dolls dozen eggs dry measure earn Erector set Evanston father feet long feet wide Find the sums five foot four FRACTIONS gallons girls grapefruit Helen read hundred inches inches long John LO LO LONG DIVISION lunch marbles Mary Meat loaf miles minutes missing numbers mother Multiply nickel nine oranges peck pint plates play pounds PROBLEMS pupils quarts of milk quotient RELAY RACE remainder REVIEW rows Ruth Saturday Evening Post saved score Seven sold square feet Subtract Swiss Steak teacher writes Tell the answers Tell the sums tickets week weighed Write the answers yeast ოო
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Page 283 - To multiply a fraction by a whole number. Multiply the numerator of the fraction by the whole number, and write the product over the denominator. Or, divide the denominator by the whole number, when this can be done without a remainder.
Page 274 - To check the accuracy of the division when there is a remainder, multiply the quotient by the divisor and add the remainder to the product.
Page 173 - Fig. 3 Fig. 4 1. What time is it in Figure 1 ? Figure 2 ? Figure 3 ? Figure 4 ? 2. What time is it if: The long hand is at VI, and the short hand is between II and III ? The long hand is at VIII, and the short hand is between V and VI ? The long hand is at XII, and the short hand is at VIII ? The long hand is at III, and the short hand is between IX and X? The long hand is at VI, and the short hand is between VI and VII? MEASURES Table of Time There are 12 months in a year. They are: January, which...
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Page 251 - Our table is 4 feet long and 2 feet wide. How many square feet are there in it?
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Page 148 - And how many cranberries?" inquired Mabel. "One quart," answered her mother. Frank heard them talking and when father came home Frank said, "Father how much more is a bushel than a peck?" Then father showed Frank, the apples and the potatoes and said, "It takes 4 pecks to make one bushel." "And it takes 8 quarts to make one peck,