Essentials of Arithmetic: Advanced Book (Classic Reprint)

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This work furnishes the material for a thorough study of the great essentials of arithmetic in the advanced classes of the elementary school. In general, in the schools of. This country the essential feature of the work of Grade VII is a thorough study of percentage and its applications, while Grade VIII considers arithmetic from the stand point of the pupil's relation to the commercial, civic, and industrial world which he is about to enter. These two great features have been emphasized in the general plan and the contents of this book.

How to make the connection between school life and society in the later years of the elementary school is one of the most serious educational problems. Some writers in arithmetic attempt to solve this problem by substantially abandoning mathematics and devoting their attention largely to sociology an interesting experiment but not arithmetic. Others, and the authors of this series among them, seek to preserve a worthy and perfectly graded sequence of arith metical topics, making the connection by showing the application of each topic to some phase of the business life which the pupil is about to enter. In this series the further effort has been made to present only the great essentials of arithmetic, and to dwell constantly upon the application of these essentials to social and business life. Unreal fractions, such obsolete methods as compound proportion, and such antiquated customs as partnership involving time are all set aside; and the space thus gained is assigned to vital topics of this generation and this country. Certain other topics, such as the metric system, land measure, and foreign money, which may properly have a place in.the work of the school, but which sometimes have to be omitted.

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