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First Book in Arithmetic - Softcover

California State Text-Book Committee

 
9781333165529: First Book in Arithmetic

Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive manual for primary arithmetic, uniquely situating this foundational subject within its broader historical and literary contexts. The author’s rigorous preparatory lessons in counting, comparison, and measurement are designed to foster an intuitive understanding of number relations. This detailed volume not only teaches simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, but also focuses on true mathematical literacy. It guides readers toward conceptual facility in elementary arithmetic through the development of a solid number sense. The author deliberately avoids abstract number work and rote memorization, instead favoring the use of concrete objects to teach operations and their applications. An innovative emphasis on number stories, or written problems, introduces the language forms of addition, subtraction, and multiplication, and their connection to real-world scenarios. This pedagogical strategy aims to increase the student’s mathematical vocabulary and comprehension, thus creating mathematically literate children who can analyze and solve problems with understanding.

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