All of the previous 'Treasures from the Past' have been Language Arts books from the past. Today's treasure is different. It is The Arithmetic Primer and was published in 1901. The complete treasure is a free download of over 100 pages.
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Here is how the author describes the book:
The Plan of the Book
The Primer of Arithmetic is not made up mainly of graded miscellaneous problems. It is built on a plan. Each four-page group constitutes the larger unit of the plan. Twenty-seven presentations of this gradually changing unit make up the book. In the first eleven groups (44pages) the page units are as follows:
1st page – New number facts
2nd page – Number facts applied to linear measurements
3rd page – Number facts applied to surface measurements
4th page – The “Elementary Spiral” (a problem in each of the five fundamental processes), followed by miscellaneous problems
In the remainder of the book, the 1st and 4th pages of each group are similar to the corresponding pages of the first eleven groups. The 2nd page teaches the application of primary facts to the larger numbers. The 3rd page deals with solid, surface, linear, and capacity measurements.
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Frank Hall published this treasure for students in the first two years of school. The book begins with a three chapter introduction. In the introduction, Hall gives detailed suggestions and explanations to teachers and parents on math education of children in these first two years. Personally, I love the suggestions that Hall gives on 'how' to incorporate math throughout daily life.
The entire download is over 100 pages, so you may want to preview it before you download it. Ready to download? Click here to go to the download page.
Other "Treasures from the Past" Free Downloads:
The Reading & Spelling Teaching Manual by Pollard
Pollard's Synthetic & the Advanced Spellers
First Book for Little Folks by Rebecca Pollard
The Phonetic Reader by Charles W. Deane
Word Mastery by Florence Akin
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