Build real arithmetic skills with a practical, business‑maced approach.
This edition of Complete Arithmetic blends oral and written exercises to strengthen core concepts. It emphasizes clear principles, abundant problems, and work that mirrors everyday math needs in school and life.
Designed for classroom use and self‑study, it reinforces a unified method across topics, from basic numeration to complex calculations. The book places emphasis on understanding and applying rules, with extensive practice in definitions, notation, fractions, decimals, and money measurements. It also connects arithmetic to real tasks like measurement, percentages, interest, and other business contexts.
- Grounded in practical, step‑by‑step instruction that builds from fundamentals to more advanced topics
- Extensive exercises, problems, and solutions to reinforce procedures and reasoning
- Coverage includes notation and numeration, fractions, decimals, money, denomi-nate numbers, measure, and percentage
- Teacher guidance and suggested approaches to reinforce learning and assessment
Ideal for students of all levels seeking solid arithmetic foundations and for teachers aiming to reinforce business‑style math skills.
Ellis attended the State Normal School of New Jersey. He would later become a school principal and superintendent of schools of Trenton. He abondoned teaching to pursue a writing career.