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Excerpt from Elementary Arithmetic Probably there is no branch of school study in which the work to-day is more unsatisfactory than in arithmetic; and yet accuracy in number work lies at the very base of efficiency in business affairs. Since much of the inefficiency of the time is clearly attributable to vagaries in educational methods, the exploitation of theories sometimes fantastic and demoralizing, there is a wide and growing desire for a return to the efficiency of an earlier period, when sane and conservative counsels were followed; when the drill was sufficient to insure a ready command of arithmetical processes by the pupil, and the learner was practically trained for the business of life. Truly conservative as this new series is planned to be, in reviving those features of the work which made for efficiency in the past, it is thoroughly modern in its adaption to the conditions of to-day. The obsolete is eliminated. An application is made to the life of the present time in both thought and environment. So many are the distinctive features of this series, and so definite and positive are the principles upon which it has been constructed, that a brief statement of some of the more important of these features should be made in advance, to give a clear idea of the plan and purpose of the books. Since the ear as well as the eye is a potent means of fixing in the mind that which is to be committed to memory, there is every reason for oral drill work in the mastery of tables, etc. 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.