116 PROBLEMS IN DIVISION. 1. How many yards are there in 792 feet? 4. How many gallons are there in 948 quarts? 5. A man gave $714 to his workmen, giving $6 to each. How many workmen were there? 6. I sold 7 horses for $854. How much did I receive for each horse? 7. A man earned $336 in 8 months. How much is that a month? 8. If 1 ton of coal costs $6, how many tons will $768 buy? 9. How many yards are there in 897 feet? 10. How many gallons are there in 972 quarts? 11. How many weeks are there in 987 days? 12. How many pecks are there in 952 quarts? 13. A man divided $816 equally among his wife, his 2 sons, and his 3 daughters. What was the share of each? 14. A farmer had 396 sheep in 3 pastures, each having the same number. How many were there in each pasture? 15. A man bought a horse for $120. How many $5 bills will it take to pay for the horse? 16. A man divided 168 pears equally among 4 boys. How many pears did each boy receive? 17. If 6 marbles are sold for a cent, how much will a boy have to pay for 132 marbles? 18. If it takes 132 days for one man to do a piece of work, how many days will it take 4 men? 19. At $7 a ton how many tons of coal can be bought for $756? 20. At $6 a cord how many cords of wood can be bought for $432? 2. An orchard has 56 trees in 7 rows. trees are in a row? 222 5 = 6 = 9 How many 3. How many hats, at $6 each, can be bought for $54? 4. How many bushels are there in 56 pecks? 5. How many pecks in 72 quarts? 6. How many sheep, at $9 a head, can be bought for $63. 7. If a man walks 3 miles an hour, how many hours will it take him to walk 33 miles? 8. A schoolroom contains 35 desks; there are 5 rows. How many desks are there in each row? 9. A man was 18 half-days in building a wall. How many days did he work? 10. A boy gave of an orange to his sister, to his brother, to his playmate, and ate 4. How much of the orange did he have left? 11. Charlie had of an apple, and gave to his sister. How many thirds had he left? 12. How many gallons in 36 quarts? 48 quarts? 13. A boy found 21 eggs in the barn. He put them in his hat to carry into the house, but fell and broke some. If he had 1 doz. when he reached the house, how many did he break? 14. There are 13 men in one car and 5 in another. How many men are in both cars? How many more men in one car than in the other? 15. If seven men can do a piece of work in 9 days, how many men will it take to do the same work in 1 day? NOTE. There should be a clock-dial in the room. Each child should be allowed to use it in connection with the problems of this lesson, in order that he may “learn by doing." 1. Of what is this a picture? How many pointers are there? 2. Are they of the same length? 3. What does the long pointer tell? tells the minutes. 4. What does the short pointer tell? The short pointer tells the hours. 5. Have you ever noticed where the long pointer was when the clock struck the hour? Where was it? 6. Put both pointers at XII. It is now 12 o'clock. 7. Let the long pointer remain there. Put the short pointer at I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII. Tell what hour it is with the long pointer at XII and the short one at each of these figures. 8. Draw a clock-face that shows 9 o'clock. 10 o'clock. 9. How long does it take the long pointer to move round the face? 10. How far does the short pointer move, while the long pointer is going round once? 11. Where is the long pointer when it is half 12. Show on the clock-face half past 12. short pointer? 13. Show on the clock-face half past 10. 14. Show on the clock-face half past 9. 15. Show on the clock-face half past 6. 16. Show on the clock-face the time when in the morning and afternoon. way round? Where is the Half past 3. Half past 1. Half past 11. school begins 17. Show when the school closes in the morning and afternoon. 18. Turn the pointers on the dial so as to indicate each hour and each half hour of the day. 1. Take the clock face. Start with both pointers at XII. Show me every hour and every half hour in the day. 2. Where is the long pointer when it has gone of the way around? Remember, when the long pointer is at III we call it "quarter past. 3. If the long pointer was at III, and the short one a quarter of the distance between I and III, what time would it be? 4. Show quarter past II. 5. Show quarter past IX. 7. Practice until you can place the pointers so as to show quarter past any hour. 8. Where is the long pointer when it has gone of the way around? Remember, when the long pointer is at IX we call it "quarter of." 9. Show quarter of IX. school. 10. Show quarter past I. 11. Show quarter of VII. 12. Show quarter of IV. 13. Show quarter of XII. The time for you to start to Time to start in the afternoon. 14. Show quarter of any hour asked. 15. Do you see the little marks between XII and I? Are there marks between all the numbers? 16. Into how many parts is each space divided? 17. Each division marks 1 minute. then between XII and I? How many minutes 18. Start with both pointers at XII. Move the long pointer to I. Over how many minutes have you moved it? How many minutes past XII is it then? 19. Show 10 minutes past XII. 20. Show 5 minutes past XII. 21. Show 15 minutes past XII. 120 Copy and learn: TIME MEASURE. 60 seconds make 1 minute. 1. If you are asleep of the day, how many hours are you asleep? 2. How many hours in the forenoon are you at school? 66 Thirty days hath September, February has 28 days, and in leap year 29 days. The other months have 31 days each. 5. Write the names of the months in order, and after each write the number of days in it. 6. What month is it now? How many days has it? 7. How many weeks are there in 30 working days? 8. How many days from the 1st of June to the 9th of July? 9. How many days from the 1st of September to the 25th of October? 10. How many weeks and days are there in the month of December? 11. How many hours are there in 5 days? 12. How many minutes are there in of an hour? 13. 15 minutes is what part of an hour? 14. 12 hours is what part of a day? 15. How many hours is it from 11 o'clock in the forenoon to 3 o'clock in the afternoon? 16. The first day of August was Thursday. What day of the month was the next Thursday? |