THE TEACHING OF ARITHMETIC (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from The Teaching of ArithmeticThe teaching Of arithmetic has, like the teaching Of other things, improved during the last forty years. The improvement has been a steady growth due almost entirely to the teachers themselves. It is not the residuum Of a series Of fashionable innovations hastily adopted and quietly discarded, nor is it the kind Of evolution which has left, in turn, our Handwork, Drawing, Language Teaching and Infant School Method in a state of chaos, waiting reverently for a pronouncement from some distinguished native or foreign dogmatist.Briefly stated, the teacher of arithmetic to-day wishes his pupils to be able to do everything that he himself did at school and to do it equally well, omitting only those units, measures and processes that he has never found useful he insists from the earliest stage that the problems his pupils solve should be such as actually occur from day to day in an ordinary mans life, or better still, in the life Of a boy or girl and that with this in view, many exercises should be based on the current geography, or geometry, or handwork of his class.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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._,