Secure toy money, or make circles of cardboard to represent the different pieces.

Appoint storekeepers and purchasers, and have the counting done in the schoolroom.

The sign for cents is . Thus, 5 cents may be written 5.

These articles are for sale in a store near a large school.

1. Walter bought a pad. How much change did he get from a dime?

NOTE. The clerk handed Walter 1 and said "5." Then she handed him a nickel and said "10." The change was 6.

2. Margaret bought an eraser.

did she get from a nickel?

How much change

3. Ethel bought a pencil. How much change did she get from a dime?

4. George bought a kite, a ball of string, and a bag of marbles. How much did they cost?

5. Make out a price list of articles you wish to buy. Select as many as you could buy for 18 cents.

6. How many pens could you buy for 9 cents?

7. How many pencils could you buy for 20 cents? 8. How many erasers could you buy for 27 cents?

HAM. ESS. AR. I-4

1. Helen and her 2 sisters and 3 brothers were invited to a May party. There were 6 other girls and 5 other boys. How many children were there in all?

2. Helen was the queen and marched in front. The other children marched in couples. How many couples were there?

3. Each of the 8 boys brought 3 apples. How many apples did they all bring?

4. Each of 9 girls brought 2 eggs. How many eggs did they all bring?

5. There were 30 ham sandwiches. of them were packed in Peter's box. How many were in his box?

6. Each child received 3 cookies. How many children did 18 cookies supply?

7. How many glasses of lemonade were needed if the girls drank 8 glasses and the boys 9 glasses?

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8. The children played 5 games in the morning and games in the afternoon. How many did they play?

9. At one time 9 of the 17 children were dancing around the Maypole and the others were sitting on the grass. How many were sitting on the grass?

Try to find as many right answers as possible in 1

Find how long it takes you to get the right answers to each set of five examples.

CHAPTER III

READING AND WRITING NUMBERS

1. One hundred one is written

101. Write in figures: one hundred four; one hundred seven.

2. The hundreds are written 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900.

3. Read: In a poultry yard there were 415 hens which had laid 365 eggs. 240 of these eggs were bought by the grocer.

4. Read; then write from dictation: 109, 110, 308, 315, 506, 348, 836, 941, 707, 888.

The largest number of three figures is 999. The next number is one thousand, 1000. The first figure on the right is called the ones' figure; the next is the tens' figure; the next is the hundreds' figure; the next is the thousands' figure. Thus, 625 is read 6 hundred 25.

Write in figures :

5. Four hundred two.

6. Four hundred twenty. 7. Six hundred ninety.

8. Seventy-three.

9. Six hundred six.

10. One thousand.