Excerpt from Primary Arithmetic 1. In sequence of topics, to follow as Closely as pos sible such of the recent courses of study as have been the most carefully prepared for our public-school systems. However an author may feel as to details, he is in the main bound by the consensus of Opinion as thus expressed. The purely topical method, the attempt to exhaust a subject like common fractions in a single chapter, is now Obsolete in our leading schools, while the extreme spiral method is scrappy, uninteresting, and lacking in the continuity SO essential to thoroughness. Between these two comes the best type of our modern courses Of study, somewhat Spiral in arrangement, in that most subjects extend over several terms, but admitting of a topical arrangement within any one term, thus securing thoroughness and maintaining an interest. 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.