BOOK I BY L. D. HARVEY PRESIDENT OF STOUT INSTITUTE, MENOMONIE, WISCONSIN; 4A103 vil COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY L. D. HARVEY. ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, LONDON. HARVEY'S PRACT. AR. BOOK I. E-P 4 CAJORI PREFACE THIS series of arithmetics consists of two books. Book I presents matter that, under ordinary conditions, can be completed at the end of the fifth school year. Book II presents material to meet all reasonable demands for work in arithmetic during the last three years of the elementary course. Courses of study, the amount of time given to arithmetic in the program, and the quality of the instruction, vary so widely in different schools that it is impracticable to prescribe, in a series of arithmetics, the exact amount of work to be completed each year. It is thought best, however, to indicate the work that experience has shown may be done, under ordinary conditions, during each year of the course. In many of the best systems of schools, no formal work in arithmetic is begun before the third year, while in other systems such work is begun earlier, though usually in a less formal way. Book I should not be put into the hands of pupils before the third year. If it is thought best to give arithmetical work earlier, the work in the first part of the book may be given by the teacher. Each book is divided into three parts. Part I of the first book presents work that may be completed by the end of the third school year. Each of the remaining parts presents work for one year. In this book the aim is to present exercises leading to a thorough mastery of the fundamental processes with whole |