Excerpt from First Book in Arithmetic, Vol. 1 of 3 HE division of this book into lessons is not at all intended 7to mark out the limit of the daily exercises. Each lesson dis cusses a separate topic, and many of them furnish or suggest mat ter upon which several days may be profitably spent. Some of them present drill exercises that may be frequently repeated with profit - returning to them from more advanced periods. Practically, the exercises embraced in this book cover three years or more of the primary school course as prescribed in most of our city schools. Advance slowly; one step at a time, and always secure a perfect mastery of any principle or Operation upon which another depends, before proceeding to the next. Go over only so much ground at any one exercise as may be thoroughly understood, and review daily. The greatest source of embarrassment to the teacher, and of dis gust and waning interest on the part of the pupil, is found in the accumulation of imperfectly mastered lessons. Endeavor to secure the interest of the class, and never do for a pupil what he can be readily led to do for himself. Slate exercises are important from the first, and if judiciously conducted can never fail to please and instruct. The various combinations by addition, subtraction, multiplica tion, and division, presented in the tables, furnish the instruments for all arithmetical Operations. If the pupil is skillful in these, the only other thing needful is such a familiar knowledge of the relation of things as to know what process should be used in the solution of problems. 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.