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This arithmetic textbook is part of a series that aims to train children to meet the ordinary demands of life. This volume provides drills and reviews of the essentials covered in the preceding books, and it adds many special short methods of calculation that increase efficiency. The chief aim is to extend the child's power to make practical applications of arithmetic to life. This book fulfills the need identified by school superintendents that the social and economic applications of arithmetic be taught in the upper grades so that grammar school children will have an insight into the typical business practices of modern life.

This arithmetic textbook aims to train children to meet the ordinary demands of life. This book fulfills the need identified by school superintendents that the social and economic applications of arithmetic be taught in the upper grades so that grammar school children will have an insight into the typical business practices of modern life.

This textbook is part of a series that aims to develop all the mathematical power needed by the average person in the accurate control of his affairs. The purpose has been to teach first the most important topics of arithmetic and last those least frequently used. In addition to giving the child all the fundamental skills of calculation, room has been found for the introduction of those simple institutional applications which are likely to be among the immediate needs of those who leave school early. Every child who completes the sixth grade will know something of being accurate and business-like about his own earning, spending, and saving. He will comprehend the simplest methods of accounting which are to aid him in his own modest affairs, whether these relate to industrial payroll, farm income, household expenditure, or savings in the bank.

This textbook is part of a series that aims to develop all the mathematical power needed by the average person in the accurate control of his affairs. The purpose has been to teach first the most important topics of arithmetic and last those least frequently used. This book presents topics, problems, and processes that are representative of the arithmetical facts, power, and skill that will be most useful to the average citizen. The methods of treating them have been garnered from the most successful teaching practice.

This textbook aims to develop all the mathematical power needed by the average person in the accurate control of his affairs. The purpose has been to teach first the most important topics of arithmetic and last those least frequently used. In consequence, the teacher may feel that the child who is leaving school at the end of any particular grade has been taught whatever would be most useful to him, considering that his schooling had to stop just then. Nothing in the next grade beyond is more important than what he has just studied. Books in this series are constructed to complete the fundamental processes of arithmetic by the end of the sixth year of school. No pupil studying from this course through the first six years will be left without an essential mathematical power. With this foundation, he can proceed by himself as needed to learn shorter or more convenient methods of calculation and to make new applications of the processes learned.

This textbook is part of a series designed to give an elementary school child all the arithmetical power necessary to cope with the situations of common everyday life. This book covers fundamental elements of arithmetical manipulation and thought. Thus, a child who goes no farther than the fourth or fifth grade will be so familiar with essentials that he can readily learn more arithmetic by himself. The topics, problems, and processes are representative of the arithmetical facts, power, and skill that will be most useful to the average citizen. The methods of treating them have been garnered from the most successful teaching practice.