615 67 McGuffey's Red Readers, White's New Arithmetics. Harvey's Revised Grammars. Holbrook's Normal Grammars. Eclectic Geographies. Eclectic Penmanship. Eclectic History United States. Thalheimer's Historical Series. Smith's English Literature. Gregory's Political Economy. Andrews's Manual of the Constitution. PREFACE. It is now thirteen years since the first issue of the au Complete Arithmetic, which has been used from that tin the present with increasing satisfaction in thousands of A can schools. In all this time there has been little deman its revision, and the changes suggested from time to time been comparatively unimportant. It is believed that few books have more satisfactorily met the test of wide and conti use the best possible test of a school book. But the demand for a two-book series, which called new first book (the "Elementary"), has afforded an opp nity for a revision of the Complete Arithmetic, and this been improved, not only with a view of better adapting its place as the second book in the new series, but al bringing it fully up to the present condition of school ins tion and of business. In this revision neither author nor lishers have spared expense or labor required to make the Complete Arithmetic worthy of general use in the most progre schools of the country. The most important change made in the revision is a increase in the number of practical problems, and this has done without any reduction in the aggregate number of p drill problems. This increase in practical problems is marked in Mensuration and the applications of Percentage cluding stock investments. There is an increase in the nu of review problems in all parts of the book, and there is n duction in the number and variety of the oral problems and measures, and to present the current values, forms, and usages of business. To this end, the author has gone to science and to the most recent statistics for data for problems, and to business men for present business usages. Special attention is called to the new treatment of the Metric System. The omission of formal tables and the presentation of the metric denominations on the decimal scale will meet the hearty approval of teachers. The characteristics that have given the author's arithmetics wide and successful use, are preserved in the new two-book series. These include: 1. A special adaptation, in matter and method, to the grades of pupils for which each book is designed. 2. A practical union of oral and written exercises in a natural and philosophic system of instruction. 3. A true and practical embodiment of the inductive method, in which definitions, principles, and rules follow processes and problems. 4. The great number and variety and the practical character of the problems, a feature in which the new series is believed to be without an equal. The author acknowledges his indebtedness to Prof. J. C. GREENOUGH, Principal of the State Normal School of Rhode Island, and to other eminent teachers, for valuable assistance in the work of revision. PURDUE UNIVERSITY, Lafayette, Ind., June 12, 1883. |