Author: John Henry Walsh

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-23

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780331800838

Excerpt from Walsh-Suzzallo Arithmetics, Vol. 7: By Grades In the upper grammar grades, the child comes to feel at ease in performing the fundamental processes, only to find their applications more complex than ever. Hence the pressing responsibility of the grammar grades is to teach the children to think. They must be taught to understand the important social institutions With which arithmetical processes are associated, for, without this comprehension, they cannot reason out the successive steps to be taken in solving practical problems. Hence a large part of this text is devoted to the simple social and economic applications of mathematics. Since the dominant problem in these higher grades is different from that of the lower years, it is necessary that the teacher modify the traditional spirit of mathematical teaching. The work should be formal only in the slight est degree. It would contribute greatly to effective in struction if the teacher would constantly remember that economic, as contrasted with formal, arithmetic deals chiefly With applications, and these should be kept vital to the children taught. While many arithmetical proc esses are very important to all pupils the whole country over, their applications are not. Each process has many varied uses. Every child may need to know every funda mental operation, but not every application of the same. 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.