A Modern Arithmetic

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Excerpt from A Modern Arithmetic: With Graphic Practical Exercises During the past few years various suggestions for the improved teaching of arithmetic have been made by the Board of Education, by committees of the British Association and the Mathematical Association, and by some public examining bodies. Though arithmetic was included in the school curriculum chiefly for utilitarian reasons, the abuse of examinations led to the introduction of tiresome and complicated calculations of no service in practical life and of little educational value. These undesirable developments are, however, now disappearing, and, in common with other mathematical subjects, the scope, substance and method of arithmetic are being placed upon a more reasonable basis. In this book an attempt has been made to provide a course of work in which the essential parts of arithmetic are dealt with in the spirit of recent recommendations. The author has endeavoured to produce a practicable as well as a practical course which mathematical teachers may introduce without any violent dislocation of existing practice and with the knowledge that the requirements of the chief examining bodies, which determine to a large extent the nature of the teaching in schools, have not been disregarded. 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.