NOTE. To secure facility on the part of the pupils the teacher should, as often as may be found necessary, require them to announce results at sight. He should also train them to give answers immediately upon hearing the numbers and operations named. This applies to all exercises involving the "combinations." How many boys together have as many legs as a horse? George earned one quarter on Monday and three quarters on Tuesday. How much did he earn in both days? Ask your papa how many quarters there are in a dollar. Tell a story about 3+14. I bought four pounds of meat. Two pounds of it was pork and the rest beef. Ask a question and answer it. Charlie has four rabbits and Paul has one less. How many has Paul? How many more fingers than thumbs has your hand? Count from one to four; then count from four back to one. If one-half of a lemon is worth two cents, how much is the lemon worth? If a cake is worth four cents, how much is one-half of it worth? One half-dollar and one half-dollar are 52. Which of these measures is the largest? Which is the smallest? Fill each measure with water, then tell me which is the heaviest. The gallon measure is full of water. times it will fill the quart measure. Find how many Find how many times you can fill the quart measure and empty it into the gallon measure. One gallon is as much as quarts. 4 quarts make 1 gallon. Mabel had a gallon of milk, but fell and spilled a quart. She had quarts left. Papa brought home a gallon of oil in a can. There is only one quart in it now. How much has been used? Fill the pint measure and empty it into the quart How many times must you do this to fill the measure. quart measure? One quart is as much as pints. 2 pints make 1 quart. A pint is what part of a quart? Two quarts are what part of a gallon? When milk is two cents a pint, how much does a quart cost? Jennie paid four cents for a quart of vinegar. How much did a pint cost? Mamma gave four quarters for a gallon of molasses. How much did a quart cost? Tell a story about a quart and a gallon. Tell me some things you have learned about the number four. 53. How many dots on this card? Of what number are they a picture? Without the one in the center, how many are there? Cover the two at the right. How many can you see? Are three dots and two dots as many as four dots and one dot? Name two numbers whose sum is five. Two other numbers. What number is one less than five? Two less? Are five ones as many as one five? Which would you rather have five pennies or a nickel? Why? Count these squares, beginning at the left. two? 10 Which did you call Is the black square really two squares, or merely another one square? The first square and the second square are how many squares? Make the figure that stands for the number five 5. 54. Here are five balls. O If Owen takes 1 ball at a time for 5 times, how many balls will he have? Then 5 times 1 ball are how many balls? 5 times 1 are how many? Here are five cents. How many boys can have 1 cent apiece? How many boys can have 2 cents apiece? How many will be left for another boy? -B -A -E -D The line D and the line A equal which line? The line B and the line C equal which line? The line B is how many times as long as the line A? The line D is how many times as long as the line B? If from the line E we take a line equal to the line A, which line will the remainder equal? Show me the number of blocks these figures represent: 3, 5, 1, 4, 2. Now make the figures that represent the number of blocks I show you. (Show blocks.) 55. Copy, complete, and read: |