The National Arithmetic, on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods, Together With the Cancelling System; Forming a Complete Mercantile Arithmetic (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Benjamin Greenleaf

 
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Excerpt from The National Arithmetic, on the Inductive System<br/><br/>A few rules, which are omitted in some works on Arithmetic at the present day, the author has thought best to retain, such as Practice, Progression, Position, Permutation, &c. For, though these rules may not in themselves be of great practical utility, yet, as they are well adapted to improve the reasoning powers, and give interest to the higher departments of arith metical science, it is deemed desirable to place them within reach of the student. In closing these prefatory remarks, the author would earnest ly recommend that the pupil be required to give a minute and thorough analysis of every question he performs, at least until he has proved himself familiar with all the principles involved in the rule under consideration, and also the manner of their application. He would further recommend a frequent and thorough review of the parts of the work which the pupil has gone over, the exercise having respect mainly to the principles involved in the preceding rules and examples....

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