A Manual For Teachers Including Definitions Principles And Rules And Solutions Of The More Difficult Problems Grammar School Arithmetic

Author : John Prince
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330201626
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Teachers Manual for Teachers Using Arithmetic by Grades written by John Prince and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Teachers Manual for Teachers Using Arithmetic by Grades Considering the amount of time given to the subject of Arithmetic in our schools, it must be admitted that the results are lamentably poor. It is fair to presume that the faulty character of the text-books in general use is accountable in part for these results. With few exceptions American text-books in Arithmetic seem to leave the teacher out of the account. Definitions, rules, explanations, illustrative problems in short, everything which should be taught by the teacher is placed before the pupil to be learned. It is true that the best teachers generally ignore these false aids and ask the pupils not to refer to them. Yet, because they are constantly before the pupils, the forbidden aids are oftentimes unwisely used, and problems are performed slyly or thoughtlessly according to the rule or model solution. While these practices are carried on to some extent in good schools, despite the care of teachers, they are universally pursued in schools whose teachers are guided by the text-book. Another fault of text-books in common use is the insufficiency of problems for practice, and teachers are compelled to make up the deficiency by placing upon the blackboard original problems or problems taken from Arithmetics other than the regular text-book. The objections to this practice are: (1)The danger for want of time of giving to the pupils unsuitable or poorly-arranged problems; (2) the harm done to pupils eyes by close and long-continued looking, frequently before a lighted window; (3) a loss of the teachers time in copying. The series of books of which this Manual is a part is designed to meet the above objections. 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.