Word Problems those are also named as "Story Problems" which are well known to the students around the world. In this book there are 26 chapters which encompass diversified problems of four basic mathematical rules--addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. These problems may help students to practice more and more as well as…

The textbook is intended for students who know the number from one to ten. The purpose of the textbook is to conform numbers in their facts and principles to the usual processes and powers and interests of children's minds. The graded reader has opened the way for the graded arithmetic. Grading all books is part and parcel of the new education,…

The purpose of this book is twofold: to supply the teacher with material for class instruction; and to provide a text-book for children to study as soon as they know how to read. The course herein begins with the number ten and proceeds by hundreds and thousands to one million, teaches the elementary facts of fractions and parts of numbers,…

This textbook is third in a series of arithmetic books that apply the principles discovered by the psychology of learning, by experimental education, and by the observation of successful school practice, to the teaching of arithmetic. The general course, which ends on page 241, is followed by exercises in understanding and using tables and an…

This textbook aims to develop the main thoughts in elementary mathematics in such a way as to show the relation of its various subjects and thereby trace their relation to each other. The book also attempts to present the principles of physics in a simple and orderly fashion so that the reader may get clear and accurate ideas concerning mechanics,…

Presents 15 fun math problems which can be used as filler activities when students have completed their regular work. (JMB)

Three activities related to pets are presented. The first focuses on caring for a pet. The second focuses on who is responsible for the actions of a pet. The third is a mathematics activity on pet overpopulation. The activities are designed to be duplicated for class use. (JN)

This book is part of the "Windows on Literacy: Language, Literacy & Vocabulary" program and shows students ways to solve problems, including drawing a picture and using a calculator. The suggested grade range is K-3; the guided reading level is N-P; the basal results level is Grade 2-Grade 3; and the Windows on Literacy Stage is Fluent Plus…

This textbook is part of a series designed to give an elementary school child all the arithmetical power necessary to cope with the situations of common everyday life. This book covers fundamental elements of arithmetical manipulation and thought. Thus, a child who goes no farther than the fourth or fifth grade will be so familiar with essentials…

This textbook's goal is to train and develop the mind by means of the science of numbers. This work is designed both for primary and advanced classes. The first part is adapted to beginners, while the latter part is peculiarly fitted to give to the more advanced student that thorough mental drilling in the analysis of numbers, which furnishes the…

Ideas for establishing a mathematical menagerie with puppets to facilitate mathematics instruction in the elementary school. (CM)

This textbook is second in a series of arithmetic books that apply the principles discovered by the psychology of learning, by experimental education, and by the observation of successful school practice, to the teaching of arithmetic. Parts One and Two are intended for grades five and six respectively. Part One provides for mastery of the four…

This textbook's goal is to train and develop the mind by means of the science of numbers. This work is designed both for primary and advanced classes. The first part is adapted to beginners, while the latter part is peculiarly fitted to give to the more advanced student that thorough mental drilling in the analysis of numbers, which furnishes the…

This textbook's goal is to train and develop the mind by means of the science of numbers. Numbers are the instruments here employed to strengthen the memory, to cultivate the faculty of abstraction, and to sharpen and develop the reasoning powers.

Two methods (one probably used by Gauss) to find the sum of the first hundred counting numbers are noted, followed by a procedure developed by a seventh-grade girl. (MNS)