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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. PLAN AND SCOPE OF THE WALSH BOOKS. The Walsh arithmetics constitute a one-book series bound for convenience in two or in three parts. The first page of one book follows immediately after the matter" last page of the preceding one, without a break. The purchaser of the second book does not buy a number of useless pages, as he must frequently do in the case of other series. Each arithmetic chapter after the first contains Half-year work for a half year. Besides the appropriate advance work in all the lines, oral and written, drill work and problems, it contains the necessary reviews. Children will not willingly turn backward to get mat- geyiew3- ter for reviews. The advisability of taking new lessons for this purpose is especially appreciated by teachers of language, English and -foreign, ancient and modern. Besides, the need of constant review is likely to be overlooked unless matter for the purpose is brought directly to the teacher's attention. Another strong feature is the careful grading. In Large Num- the abstract work, the examples are so numerous that Examples, the difficulties are introduced as slowly as is compatible with good work. The very great number of the abstract examples gives the needed facility in rapid and accurate calculation. The examples are so graded that the child can begin written work early in his school life, and continue it without interruption. He can begin to add as soon as he knows a few sums, and the successive examples grow difficult by slow degrees. In the first nine pages, for instance, there are 258 examples in addition, oral and written, with the total of each column less than 10. The children learn to do by doing. Then follow 121 examples, problems, etc., leading to written subtraction, without "borrowing," then 65 exam...
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