Normal Arithmetic: A Text-Book, Theoretical and Practical, in Six Parts, Viz: Part I. Decimal Numbers; Part II. Denominate Numbers; Part III. Per ... and Series; Part Vi; Miscellaneous Subjects - Tapa dura

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Excerpt from Normal Arithmetic: A Text-Book, Theoretical and Practical, in Six Parts, Viz: Part I. Decimal Numbers; Part II. Denominate Numbers; Part III. Per Centage; Part IV. Proportion; Part V. Powers, Roots and Series; Part Vi; Miscellaneous Subjects

The end of Arithmetic is not merely to teach rules and work examples, but to give the mind capability, to fit it for research hence, to multiply rules till every species of problem has its own specific rule, is to defeat the possibility of a good arithmetician. It leaves the student nothing more than to commit the rules and work the examples. He becomes a book student, and a book student only, and, after having passed brilliantly through his Arithmetic, may find himself utterly unable to calculate the worth of the first load of wood brought to his door. What is needed is less book and more thought, less rule and more judgment. The student must be taught to think for himself. When a mathematical principle is stated, it is a thousand-fold better for him to make the application by his own common sense than to be guided by either teacher or rule. To master a problem unaided is victory; it gives new courage and conscious ability. There is moral power in I did it without aid.

It has been the purpose of the author to draw as much as possible from the pupil, and, induce that accuracy which will give him confidence in his own abilities and computations.

The method of classification and arrangement has been most successful with the author in his own school room, and, it is believed, will commend itself to every teacher of mathematics.

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