ORAL EXERCISES 1. Name the days of the week. How many days in one week? How many days in two weeks? 2. Name the months of the year. How many months in one year? 3. In what month does Christmas come? New Year's? Thanksgiving? Memorial Day? Washington's Birthday? 4. There are 60 seconds in one minute. Point to the second hand of the watch in the picture. 5. How many minutes in 1 hr.? 6. How many hours in 1 da.? 7. We now know the following TABLE 10 11 12 1 2 9 3 .8 4. 7 5 6 60 seconds = 1 minute 60 minutes = 1 hour 24 hours = 1 day 8. For short we write sec. for second or seconds. 9. All months do not have the same number of days. The names of the months and the number of days in each are: 10. Here is an old rhyme which will help you to remember the number of days in each month : Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Save February alone, Whose days are twenty-eight in fine Till leap year makes them twenty-nine. WRITTEN EXERCISES 1. Write the date of to-day, thus: Tuesday, May 7, 1907. Write the date of three holidays. Write the date your next birthday. of 2. George Washington was born in the year 1732. He died in 1799. How old was he at the time of his death? 3. How many days from March 12 to March 20? 4. How old are you? In what year were you born? Subtract your age from the year last birthday and you will find the year of your birth. of your 5. Find the number of weeks and days in each of these months January, June, August, November. 6. If you leave school at 4 P.M. on Monday and return at 9 A.M. on Tuesday, how many hours are you away from school? 7. Jack went to bed at 9 P.M. and arose at 6 A.M. the next day. How long was he in bed? 8. How many days is the Fourth of July after Memorial Day, May 30? 1. Write the table of dry measure. 4. How many inches in 1 ft.? How many feet in 1 yd.? 5. How many square inches in 1 sq. ft.? Draw a square foot on the blackboard and show the number of square inches in it. 6. Draw a square yard on the floor and show the number of square feet in it. 7. What is the area of a 3-inch square? What is the perimeter? 8. How many quarts are 2 gal. 2 qt.? 9. How many feet are 5 yd. 2 ft.? 10. 43 lb. +21 lb. how many pounds? 11. It takes 30 inch cubes to fill a box. How deep is the box if the bottom layer is 5 in. long and 3 in. wide? 12. How many cubic inches in a 2-inch cube? 13. 2 ft. 6 in. are how many feet? 14. Mary bought 8 yd. of cloth at 5 ct. a yard. How much change should she receive if she gave the storekeeper a half dollar? 15. A boy earns $10 a month. How much does he earn in a year? 16. At $3.85 a barrel, how much does a grocer receive for 9 barrels of flour? 17. Multiply 48,095 by 7. 18. Multiply 96,478 by 8. 19. Divide 54,350 by 5. 20. Divide 43,584 by 6. 21. At $14 an acre, how many acres of land can be bought for $4480? 22. Subtract 23,486 from 90,090. 23. If 62 acres of land cost $992, what will 40 acres cost? 24. Find the sum of 8769 +8543 + 7897 + 4876 + 4693. 25. What will 30 eggs cost at 30 cents a dozen? 26. Write in figures sixty thousand six. 27. One house is valued at $7270 and another house at three times as much. How much are both together worth? 28. If 6 overcoats cost $144, how many overcoats can be bought for $1320? 29. How many packages of tea, 9 pounds in each package, can be made from 8847 pounds of tea? 30. When Mary's pail was half full she had 3 quarts of berries. At 12 cents a quart, how much money should she receive for her berries after her pail is filled? 31. At $1.37 each, what will 27 books cost? 32. Find the sum of 6743 + 7648 + 8974 + 649. 33. What is the difference between 40,412 and 25,391? 34. Mr. Jackson had $700. How much money will he have left after buying a horse for $150, a wagon for $45, and 4 cows for $35 each? 35. What is the cost of 15 yards of velvet at $1.25 a yard, and 5 yards of ribbon at 37 cents a yard? 36. How many eights are there in 6256 ? 37. If you have $7695 and I have as much, how much have we both together? 38. I have 63 bushels of corn in one bin, 54 bushels in another, 37 bushels in a third, and 29 bushels in a fourth. How many pecks of corn have I? 39. Mr. Brown paid $54 for a cow, 4 times as much for a horse, and as much for a carriage as for the cow and horse together. What was the cost of all? 40. Add two thousand seven; six thousand four hundred twenty-seven; nine thousand forty-five; eight thousand eighty-eight. 41. It is 33 miles from Haverhill to Boston. How many miles would a man ride in a week if he lives in Haverhill and goes into Boston to work each day? 42. Find the product of 250 and 529. 43. What is the cost of 16 barrels of flour at $6.25 a barrel, and 7 barrels of apples at $2.50 a barrel? 44. Divide 64,440 by 120. 1 12 45. Out of an army of 9876 men were lost. How many men remained? |