Author: Daniel Staniford

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780428653781

Excerpt from Staniford's Practical Arithmetic: In Which the Rules Are Rendered Simple in the Operation, and Illustrated by a Variety of Useful Questions, Calculated to Give the Pupil a Full Knowledge of Figures, in Their Application to Trade and Business TO the question commonly asked, on the appearance of a new book, ls there any thing new in it? The author replies, that al though the subject Of Arithmetic can admit but little novelty, yet in this treatise there is something new, which may be easily discovered by an examination Of its contents. The general rules in most of the Arithmetics used in our schools are too synthetical for the young Arithmetician. They contain too many principles blended together, unaccompanied with sufficient elucidations. The scholar therefore is in danger of passing over many essential parts, without fully comprehending them. One design therefore of this treatise is to give an Analysis of these general rules, resolving them into their simple constituent parts, illustrating them by easy practical questions. As the work, also, is principally designed to furnish a system of Practical Arithmetic, adapted to the currency of the United States, all mathematical demonstrations are purposely omitted, to give place to clear illustrations of the rules by easy examples, and such as tend to prepare the scholar for business; referring those, who wish to se quire a knowledge of the higher branches of the Mathematics in those elaborate, though useful parts Of the science, to authors particularly designed for, the purpose. This Omission will leave for the instructor enough for the exercise Of his skill in explaining the nature of each rule to the pupil, as he advances in his pursuit, and becomes capable of comprehending those abstruse parts of the science. The instructor is left, also, to supply at his discretion, various additional questions for exercise in the application Of the several rules. This will prevent the fatal practice, too much indulged among scholars, of copying from each other's manuscripts. The same question should never be proposed by the instructor a second time. 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.