Author: Wooster Woodruff Beman

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-17

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781440035340

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Excerpt from Higher Arithmetic 1. The present work has been prepared with the belief that it will be of service to progressive teachers in American high schools, academies, and normal schools. As indicated by its title, it is intended for those who are taking up the subject a second time with the desire to review and extend the knowledge previously acquired. The purpose of the authors is more fully set forth in the following statement of some of the distinctive features of the book. 2. The applied problems refer to the ordinary commercial life of to-day, or they deal with elementary questions arising in the laboratory, or they are inserted for general information. The fact that tradition has furnished the schools with a mass of inherited puzzles which give a false notion of business, that in an age of science and invention these subjects have found no place in the arithmetics, and that the common graphic methods of representing statistics are not seen in the schools, has not deterred the authors from attempting to modernize the subject. At the same time they believe that the exercises will be found much more straightforward and simple than those with which the average text-book has so long been encumbered. 3. Problems in pure arithmetic in the high school are intended to furnish training in mathematical analysis. This is almost their only justification. 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.

Download or read book Higher Arithmetic written by Wooster Woodruff Beman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Higher Arithmetic 1. The present work has been prepared with the belief that it will be of service to progressive teachers in American high schools, academies, and normal schools. As indicated by its title, it is intended for those who are taking up the subject a second time with the desire to review and extend the knowledge previously acquired. The purpose of the authors is more fully set forth in the following statement of some of the distinctive features of the book. 2. The applied problems refer to the ordinary commercial life of to-day, or they deal with elementary questions arising in the laboratory, or they are inserted for general information. The fact that tradition has furnished the schools with a mass of inherited puzzles which give a false notion of business, that in an age of science and invention these subjects have found no place in the arithmetics, and that the common graphic methods of representing statistics are not seen in the schools, has not deterred the authors from attempting to modernize the subject. At the same time they believe that the exercises will be found much more straightforward and simple than those with which the average text-book has so long been encumbered. 3. Problems in pure arithmetic in the high school are intended to furnish training in mathematical analysis. This is almost their only justification. 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.