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mental faculties. The book may be said to consist of
five parts. The first part contains simple, familiar
Lessons in Numbers. The second part contains the
Fundamental Operations followed by General Principles
and Properties of Numbers. The third contains Frac-
tions, in which great pains have been taken to render
the work intelligible to young students. Currency and
the Metric System follow, because of their intimate rela-
tion to Decimal Fractions. The fourth contains Com-
pound Numbers and Reduction. The fifth, Percentage
and its applications.

The logical development of principles, the systematic
arrangement of the subjects, the copiousness and variety
of exercises will, it is believed, greatly aid the teacher
in exciting the interest of the pupil.

Teachers who desire to give a more extended drill in
the simplest operations, are referred to "PECK'S FIRST
LESSONS IN NUMBERS."

To facilitate references, a complete Index to the Sub-
jects and Definitions is inserted at the end of the volume.

The author takes great pleasure in acknowledging his
obligations to many teachers who have favored him with
suggestions and criticisms. But more than a passing
acknowledgment is due to Prof. JOHN DUNLAP, whose
long experience and superior ability as a Teacher have
enabled him to render much valuable assistance in the
preparation of this work.

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FORMATION OF NUMBERS.

LESSON I.

COUNTING.

Look at the picture and count the objects named below.

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LESSON II.

WRITING NUMBERS. 1 TO 10.*

Write the word that tells how many houses there are in the picture. One. One is a Unit.

Write the word that tells how many horses. Two. How many ones, or units, in two ?

Write the word that tells how many persons there are in the carriage. Three. How many units in three? How many units, or ones, in four? In five? In six ? In seven? In eight? In nine? How many in ten? One, two, three, four, five, etc., are called numbers. A Number is one or more things of the same kind. What number tells how many girls there are on the grounds? What is the number of boys?

Thus far we have used words to express numbers; we may also use Figures.

The number of houses may be written one or 1; the number of horses, two or 2; the number of sail-boats, three or 3; the number of girls, four or 4; number of boats on the lake, five or 5; number of boys, six or 6; number of windows, seven or 7; number of small trees, eight or 8; number of birds, nine or 9.

We use one more figure, 0. It is called naught, and standing alone expresses no number, but is used with. other figures to express numbers.

These are all the figures in use. How many are there? Write the ten figures; thus,

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. Read the following figures: 3, 2, 1; 4, 5, 6; 9, 8, 7, 0. Which is the least number? The greatest?

*See Picture, page 7.

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