Household Arithmetic

Author : Katharine Frances Ball
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ISBN 13 : 9781331663744
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Household Arithmetic (Classic Reprint) written by Katharine Frances Ball and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Household Arithmetic There is a widespread conviction that girls need more training in the kind of mathematics used in everyday life than is afforded in the traditional courses. The complaint is made that girls fail to reason correctly when confronted by practical problems; that they lack skill and foresight in transactions involving expenditures of money; that they do not understand how to make approximations, how to interpret graphs - in a word, that their "mathematics does not function." To remedy this condition involves not necessarily more training but different training, as well as a reorganization of the mathematics courses to meet the needs of the students. Since one of the most important needs of girls is an intelligent understanding of home problems, the authors have used the subject matter of home economics for their contribution to the reorganization of arithmetic courses. The same methods might well be applied to subject matter chosen from other realms of experience, and the authors hope to extend their work into other fields to meet other needs. The purposes of the book may be stated as follows: a. To enable girls to understand and to interpret the economic problems in their own homes. b. To develop skill in the computations and the methods of reasoning involved in everyday affairs so that arithmetic may become a tool in effective living. c. To make girls readily see controlling number relations in practical situations. The family budget forms the basis for the organization of the subject matter, thus emphasizing the economic aspect of homemaking. The material falls naturally into six sections. The first section is devoted to a study of the principles of budget-making and methods of keeping simple accounts. 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.