Grammar School BookExcerpt from Grammar School Book This Grammar School Arithmetic is noteworthy for the topics which it omits, as well as for the new topics which it introduces. A dominant feature is the emphasis upon vocational problems. These problems are of wide range, drawn from life on a farm, in the home, in the carpenter's shop, the manufacturing establishment, and the clerk's office in the city. It is hoped that these vocational problems will be of genuine value to the pupil after he leaves the school and enters into one or another of the various fields of activity. A new feature in the treatment is the study of curves representing empirical data, such as variations in temperature, of prices of different commodities, of stock quotations, or of agricultural and other scientific data. No other topic in elementary mathematics has sprung into such prominence in modern life. 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. |
