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Excerpt from A Mental Arithmetic: Designed for Use in Common Schools and Academies
The main purpose of this book is to provide an ample store of such questions as are best suited to drill in elementary arithmetical operations and to oral practice in analysis and reasoning.
That such training is most effectively given by means of questions easy enough to be worked mentally is an accepted opinion among experienced teachers. Accordingly, mental arithmetic fills a large place in courses of arithmetical study, and a separate book is often found to be a convenience, if not a necessity. It is not, however, as a substitute for written arith metic, nor yet as a distinct subject set apart from the other, that mental arithmetic will best serve its purpose for the two subjects are really one, differing chie?y in method of expression, and yielding their best fruits when both are applied to the same topics at the same time. Hence men tal arithmetic is an appropriate and useful study at all stages of the pupil's progress; and a book on the subject is not properly one member in a graded series of text-books, but is rather to be regarded as a companion to them, affording a parallel enlargement of the whole course.
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The main purpose of this book is to provide an ample store of such questions as are best suited to drill in elementary arithmetical operations and to oral practice in analysis and reasoning.
That such training is most effectively given by means of questions easy enough to be worked mentally is an accepted opinion among experienced teachers. Accordingly, mental arithmetic fills a large place in courses of arithmetical study, and a separate book is often found to be a convenience, if not a necessity. It is not, however, as a substitute for written arith metic, nor yet as a distinct subject set apart from the other, that mental arithmetic will best serve its purpose for the two subjects are really one, differing chie?y in method of expression, and yielding their best fruits when both are applied to the same topics at the same time. Hence men tal arithmetic is an appropriate and useful study at all stages of the pupil's progress; and a book on the subject is not properly one member in a graded series of text-books, but is rather to be regarded as a companion to them, affording a parallel enlargement of the whole course.
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.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Edwin P. Seaver
Hardback
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ISBN - 9780666493231
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Page Count - 181
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ISBN - 9781330171813
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1 cm
Page Count - 183
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