This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896. Excerpt: ... PRIMARY ARITHMETIC. PART 1. LESSON 1. Note.--The following oral exercises prepare pupils for written work duriug the study hour. Be sure that many of the exercises call for action on the part of the child. (The exercises with the class should precede the pupil's seatwork.) ORAL EXERCISE. i Show me one book; one table; one stick of crayon. Point toward one boy; one window; one door; one tree. Bring me one pencil, Lucy. Take one step, Fred. Nod your head one time, Charley. Can you spell one? Can you make the figure that means one? This is it--1. (Teacher makes the figure and the word on the board.) FOR STUDY.-1-0116 See this boy. How many boys are there? How many heads has he? How many noses? How many mouths? What has he in his hands? How many bats do you see? Make the figure 1, and write the word one, carefully on paper at your seat. LESSON 2. ORAL, EXERCISE. How many hands have you? Show me as many fingers as you have hands; as many splints. Show me two shells; two spools; two table-legs. (Let the teacher substitute the names of pupils for the names in the book.) Harry, bring me two books. Two pencils, Mary. Two sticks of crayon, Ethel. Two buttons, Albert. Each of you may take one block in your right hand. Take one block in your left hand. Now put these blocks together. How many blocks in all? One block and one block taken together are how many blocks? Hattie may bring me one pencil. Elmer may bring me one pencil. I will put these pencils together. How many pencils together have I? One pencil and one pencil are how many pencils? Mabel had one doll, and her aunt gave her one more. How many dolls had Mabel then? Fred may tell the story of Mabel and her dolls. Fred: "Mabel had one doll. Her aunt gave her one more. She then had two dolls." George wanted a to...
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