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addition amount arith average boys cent better cent of recitation cent poorer central tendency Chart clear when read courses of study cube root Decimal fractions Denominate numbers discount distributed division eighth grade elimination emphasis er er er examples experience fact factors favor fifth FIVE ELEMENTARY ARITHMETICS following table fourth grade girls give given to arithmetic greatest common divisor Houten initial ability instruction interest introduce a textbook investigation Iowa least common multiple less material measure median ability median per cent metic Metric system minutes per week multiplication tables non-drill class North Central number of problems Ohio oral percentage practice periods presented Prob pupils quartile Rice scores second grade second test sixth grade South Atlantic standard subtraction supervisor table becomes clear TABLE SHOWING teachers textbook in arithmetic third grade tion topical method troy weight variation VII VIII ΙΟ
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Page 175 - ... 1. If you buy 2 tablets at 7 cents each and a book for 65 cents, how much change should you receive from a two-dollar bill?
Page 176 - A girl spent % of her money for car fare, and three times as much for clothes. Half of what she had left was 80 cents. How much money did she have at first?
Page 201 - Get the answers to these problems as quickly as you can. 1. What number subtracted 12 times from 30 will leave a remainder of 6? 2. If a train travels half a mile in a minute, what is its rate per hour? 3. What number minus 16 equals 20?
Page 158 - The salt water which was obtained from the bottom of a mine of rock salt contained 0.08 of its weight of pure salt. What weight of salt water was it necessary to evaporate in order to obtain 3896 pounds of salt? 8. A gentleman gave away...
Page 175 - The uniforms for a baseball nine cost $2.50 each. The shoes cost $2 a pair. What was the total cost of uniforms and shoes for the nine?
Page 163 - A glance at the figures will tell us at once that there is no direct relation between time and result; that special pressure does not necessarily lead to success, and, conversely, that lack of pressure does not necessarily mean failure. In the first place, it is interesting to note that the amount of time devoted to arithmetic in the school that obtained the lowest average — 25 per cent.
Page 176 - A freight train left Albany for New York at 6 o'clock. An express train left on the same track at 8 o'clock. It went at the rate of 40 miles an hour. At what time of day will it overtake the freight train if the freight train stops after it has gone 56 miles?
Page 175 - He kept £ the money and with the other 5 he bought Sunday papers at 2 cents each. How many did he buy? 3. If James had 4 times as much money as George, he would have $16. How much money has George? 4. How many pencils can you buy for 50 cents at the rate of 2 for 5 cents?
Page 158 - ... make? 2. What will 24 quarts of cream cost at $1.20 a gallon? 3. If I buy 8 dozen pencils at 37 cents a dozen, and sell them at 5 cents apiece, how much do I make? 4. A flour merchant bought 1437 barrels of flour at $7 a barrel. He sold 900 of these barrels at $9 a barrel, and the remainder at $6 a barrel. How much did he make? 5. If a train runs...
Page 157 - SIXTH YEAR 1. If a boy pays $2.83 for a hundred papers, and sells them at 4 cents apiece, how much does he make? 2. What will 24 quarts of cream cost at $1.20 a gallon? 3. If I buy 8 dozen pencils at 37 cents a dozen, and sell them at 5 cents apiece, how much do I make?