Just Published, Second Edition, pp. 55, PRICE 6d., THE ARITHMETICAL QUESTIONS IN PART II., OF CALDER'S ARITHMETIC. ALSO, ON LARGE THICK PAPER, PRICE SIXPENCE, THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS IN PART I.; AND, PRICE ONE SHILLING, THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS IN PART II. PARTS I. & II. ARE ALSO SOLD BOUND TOGETHER, At 4s. 6d.; or, with Answers, at 5s. 6d. ALSO, THE ELEMENTARY RULES WITH ANSWERS. REV. FREDERICK CALDER, B.A. HEAD MASTER OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CHESTERFIELD. LONDON: WHITTAKER & CO. CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON & LAUGHTON. CHESTERFIELD: GALLIMORE. MDCCCLII. 181. c. 10. In REDUCTION has been divided into two parts, the simpler operations being placed before the Compound Rules, and the more difficult part after them. treating this subject, care has been taken to avoid the common mode of bringing too rapidly before the pupil examples of various kinds; and the object has been to lead him very gradually through all the successive stages and difficulties which that Rule presents. I have also endeavoured to introduce a gradual knowledge of the signs of Addition, Subtraction, &c. For though it is easy for a pupil to learn them one at once, and apply them by degrees; yet I have found, that when a boy, on entering Fractions, has to learn the use of the signs all at once, he often becomes confused, and is consequently much hindered in that part of his work, where a ready use of the signs is so indispensable. After every two or three Rules, miscellaneous practical examples have been introduced, sufficiently easy, it is hoped, to elicit the power of applying the Rules which have been learned; a power of which there is in most pupils such a marked deficiency. A few questions, also, on the principles which have been explained, will initiate, at least inquiring pupils, into the habit of self-examination in the subjects which they have professed to learn. GRAMMAR, SCHOOL, CHESTERFIELD, F. C. |