Colburn's First Lessons: Intellectual Arithmetic, Upon the Inductive Method of InstructionHilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1826 - 172 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα iii
... things , though always correct , is not always the most expeditious . The fondness which children usually manifest for these exercises , and the facility with which they perform them , seem to indicate that the science of numbers , to a ...
... things , though always correct , is not always the most expeditious . The fondness which children usually manifest for these exercises , and the facility with which they perform them , seem to indicate that the science of numbers , to a ...
Σελίδα iv
... things with which we are acquainted , we obtain an abstract idea of number . We first make calculations about sensible objects ; and we soon observe , that the same calculations will apply to things very dissimilar ; and finally , that ...
... things with which we are acquainted , we obtain an abstract idea of number . We first make calculations about sensible objects ; and we soon observe , that the same calculations will apply to things very dissimilar ; and finally , that ...
Σελίδα vii
... thing as deriving practical examples from those which are abstract , unless the abstract have been first derived from those which are practical . Thirdly , the numbers are ex pressed by figures , which , if they were used only as a con ...
... thing as deriving practical examples from those which are abstract , unless the abstract have been first derived from those which are practical . Thirdly , the numbers are ex pressed by figures , which , if they were used only as a con ...
Σελίδα viii
... things , and that is , how to perform these operations on figures . He can perhaps translate the figures into words , but this is useless since he does not understand the words themselves . Of the effect produced by the four fundamental ...
... things , and that is , how to perform these operations on figures . He can perhaps translate the figures into words , but this is useless since he does not understand the words themselves . Of the effect produced by the four fundamental ...
Σελίδα x
... thing before he knows any thing about it - no uncommon error ! Let us see , however , what the youth looks like . I suppose he is a human creature at least . Master Samuel Acres was now called in . He came hanging down his head , and ...
... thing before he knows any thing about it - no uncommon error ! Let us see , however , what the youth looks like . I suppose he is a human creature at least . Master Samuel Acres was now called in . He came hanging down his head , and ...
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100 dollars 12 dollars 30 dollars 9 dollars analytic induction asked the age barrel cost barrel of flour barrels of cider bought broadcloth bushel cost bushels of corn bushels of wheat cents apiece cloth cost contained cost 2 dollars divided dollars a barrel dollars a yard eight dollars eighteen Eleven equal farthings fifths firkins of butter five dollars flour cost Forty-eight Forty-seven four dollars Fourteen fractions gallons gave gills give them apiece half halves horses eat hundred weight improper fraction lars lowest terms miles months nails Nineteen oranges cost paid pears pence penny perform piece pints plate pole pound cost provision will serve pupil quarters wide quarts rectangles Reduce rods seven dollars seventeen sevenths sheep shillings a bushel six cents Sixteen sixths sold square subtraction tenths Thirteen three dollars twelve dollars week whole numbers yards cost yards of cloth
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Σελίδα ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Σελίδα 164 - I see by little and little more of what is to be done, and how it is to be done, should I ever be able to do it.
Σελίδα 69 - One 1 Two 2 Three 3 Four 4 Five 5 Six 6 Seven 7 Eight 8 Nine 9 Ten 10 Eleven 11 Twelve 12 Thirteen 13 Fourteen 14 Fifteen 15 Sixteen 16 Seventeen 17...
Σελίδα 126 - DRY MEASURE 2 pints (pt.) = 1 quart (qt.) 8 quarts =1 peck (pk.) 4 pecks = 1 bushel (bu...
Σελίδα 38 - There is an orchard consisting of ten rows of trees, and nine trees in each row ; how many trees are there in the orchard ? 12.
Σελίδα 131 - If 2 men start from the same place, and travel in opposite directions; one at the rate of 3f miles in an hour, and the other 4 j miles; how far will they be apart at the end of 1 hour ? how far at the end...
Σελίδα 78 - If 8 men can do a piece of work in 5 days, in how many days would they do a piece of work 4 times as large ? 22.
Σελίδα 80 - A man, being asked how many sheep he had, said that he had them in two pastures ; in one pasture he had eight ; and that 3 fourths of these was -f just 1 third of what he had in the other. How many were there in the other ? 4.
Σελίδα 139 - A man, driving his geese to market, was met by another, who said, Good morrow, master, with your hundred geese ; says he, I have not a hundred ; but if I had half as many more as I now have, and two geese and a half, I should have a hundred ; how many had he ? 176.
Σελίδα 125 - MONEY. 10 mills make 1 cent. 10 cents " 1 dime. 10 dimes " 1 dollar. 10 dollars