THE NEW AMERICAN ARITHMETIC, IN THE COIN OF THE UNITED STATES, DENOMINATED FEDERAL MONEY; BEING A PLAIN AND EASY METHOD OF COMPUTING BY NUMBERS, Illustrated and Simplified, FOR THE USE OF ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES. BY JOHN LYMAN NEWELL, AUTHOR OF THE AMERICAN STANDARD OF PENMANSHIP. "He has gained his point, who has blended the sweet with the HARTFORD : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. L. S. DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, SS. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of November, in the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JOHN LYMAN NEWELL, of the said district, hath deposited in this Office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: "The New American Arithmetic, in the Coin of the United States, "denominated Federal Money, being a plain and easy method of "computing by numbers, particularly adapted to the capacity of "youth, illustrated and simplified, for the use of academies and "schools in the United States. By John Lyman Newell, author "of the American Standard of Penmanship. "He has gained "his point, who has blended the sweet with the useful.” In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." CHAS. A. INGERSOLL, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. A true copy of record, examined and sealed by me, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. E. Clark, Printer, Middletown. Howe 4.26-40 41289 PREFACE. For a number of years, the Author has devoted his attention to the instruction of youth; and finding it difficult to give learners an immediate knowledge of Arithmetic by the very laborious and intricate method of reckoning money in pounds, shillings, pence, &c.; and as this method of reckoning is now useless to the citizens of the United States, he has, with much care and attention, designed and >>>prepared the following work for the use of Academies and Schools. Federal Money being our National Currency, and the present mode of reckoning money of account in dollars, cents, and mills, by an Act of Congress, having become general throughout the United States, the Author considers it an important point to have the youth of our country well instructed and familiarized in our own coins; consequently, he has in this work invariably adopted the present mode of reckoning money. Of all coins, Federal Money is the most simple, and the operations in it the most easy; and the Author is convinced, from the result of long and continued experience, that by pursuing a proper method, the knowledge of figures may be acquired in greater perfection, in less time, and with much less trouble, both to the teacher and learner, than on the old plan. It is too common a fault in elementary works, that they seem rather calculated for a teacher than a learner, and from a very natural cause, that what a person fully understands himself, he readily concludes may be easily comprehended in part by others. Hence, the business of explaining the rudimental parts of all science, has been too much neglected. It has long been the almost uniform complaint of Instructors, that their pupils do not engage in the study of Arithmetic with that delight with which they usually pursue the other branches of education; which is owing, doubtless in a great measure, to the want of adaptation of this study to their capacity, and the uninteresting manner in which it has generally been treated. In the following work, the Author has endeavoured to obviate these difficulties by making the subject perspicuous, easy, and peculiarly interesting, and thereby to relieve the pupil from unnecessary perplexity; he has also endeavoured to put him in the readiest way to acquire an extensive knowledge both of theoretical and practical Arithmetic; thereby essentially abridging the time here- . tofore necessary to be spent in the communication and attainment |
