City Arithmetics: Fifth Year, First Half (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from City Arithmetics

Business men complain that boys and girls whom they employ cannot perform correctly the four fundamental operations. Teach ers in the upper grades state that the pupils come to them so weak in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of integers that the work in the last three years is seriously handicapped. The authors feel that this is in part due to lack of persistent drill. To offset this, a large number of examples and problems in these Opera tions has been furnished for daily practice. Overemphasis on the explanation of processes and excessive vari ety of appeal to the interest of pupils are other causes of weakness in arithmetic. The authors have striven to avoid refinements of explanation, to eliminate processes with little practical application, and to provide an intelligent but not excessive variety of drill work.