BY J. A. FERRELL, B. S., C. E., Professor of Mathematics in the Southwestern Normal School for Oklahoma TOPEKA CRANE & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, TOPEKA, KANSAS. 1903. FERRELL'S ARITHMETICS. Ferrell's Teachers' and Students' Manual 165 Pages. Ferrell's Elementary Arithmetic. 217+ xiil Pages. Ferrell's Advanced Arithmetic. 408 + xvi Pages. CRANE & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, TOPEKA, KAN. PREFACE. THIS book was prepared primarily as a first book in Arithmetic for those schools in which a text is not put into the hands of the pupil before the beginning of the third school year. It contains the mathematics for the third, fourth, and fifth school years. But, if preceded by Wooster's Arithmetics or their equivalents in the first, second and third years, Parts One and Two may be completed during the fourth year. In that event, only time enough need be taken with Part One to review hastily and to understand the plan of work preparatory to taking up Part Two. This is the companion book of Ferrell's Advanced Arithmetic, which contains the mathematics for the sixth, seventh and eighth school years. The author claims for this book the following special features of excellence: I. THE SPIRAL PLAN OF ARRANGEMENT.-The first part reviews what the pupil has been taught, or has "picked up" before the end of the second school year. It systematizes this knowledge, and adds suitable advanced work. The Second and Third Parts each review the preceding part, and continue to add suitable advanced work. II. THE UNIFORM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL GRADATION.-The association and sequence of the various subjects have been carefully studied, and the order of the development of the mental (iii) 81083 |