Table Book and Primary Arithmetic: Containing Complete Tables and Numerous Oral, Slate, and Dictation Exercises. Designed for Beginners and Primary Classes

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A.S. Barnes, 1881 - Arithmetic - 104 pages
 

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Page 89 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one. Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 72 - If any remainder be equal to, or greater than the divisor, the quotient figure is too small, and must be increased.
Page 101 - Meter (as the new unit was named) was therefore defined to be the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, measured along the sea level, on the meridian passing through Paris.
Page 55 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor.
Page 95 - A pile of wood 8 feet long. 4 feet wide, and 4 feet high, contains 1 cord; and a cord foot is 1 foot in length of such a pile.
Page 92 - LINEAR MEASURE 12 inches (in.) = 1 foot (ft.). 3 feet = 1 yard (yd.). 5J yards or 16| feet = 1 rod (rd.).
Page 90 - TROY WEIGHT. 24 grains (gr.) = 1 pennyweight (pwt.). 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (oz.). 12 ounces = 1 pound (lb.). 351. Apothecaries' weight is used in mixing medicines and in selling them at retail. APOTHECARIES
Page 97 - TABLE. 24 Sheets = 1 Quire . . qr. 20 Quires = 1 Ream . , rm. 2 Reams — 1 Bundle . . bun. 5 Bundles = 1 Bale . . B.
Page 55 - It shows that the number before it is to be divided by the number after it. Thus 6 -i- 2 = 3 is read, 6 divided by 2 is equal to 3.
Page 39 - Multiplication is the process of taking one of two numbers as many times as there are units in the other.

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