Author : George William Myers
Release : 2015-06-24
Genre : Mathematics
Kind : eBook
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Download or read book Myers Arithmetic written by George William Myers. This book was released on 2015-06-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Myers Arithmetic: Elementary Many and substantial gains have been made in the last decade in both theory and practice in elementary education, and arithmetic has gained largely from this general advance. We have learned much of late as to practical ways of securing in the teaching of the elements of mathematical science the larger and the more significant educational aims - strengthening the judgment and the will, the power to think and to do. The writer of an arithmetic who cuts himself off from these advances and satisfies himself with mere "figuring," or the mere meeting of an existing "consensus," cheapens his effort by denying the higher purposes of education and renounces his opportunity to help even the makers of programs by pointing the direction whence improvement must come. Without neglecting either of these two important requirements, the authors of this book have striven to make the arithmetic work more thoughtful, and even the drill purposeful and educative. There is no school subject in which foreshortened views and distorted perspective work more harm than in elementary mathematics. Children as well as adults, learn new ideas by meeting them first in simple forms, intermingled with familiar ideas and fairly well-understood uses of the new ideas. After a little, the new idea makes itself felt as something new. This is the time to differentiate it for formal study, to learn what it really is. This is the stage for the study of process and for drill enough to fix it and to make its use easy and facile. The learner then desires to experience the added power the mastery of the process has given him, and this calls for the application stage. 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.