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ARITHMETIC,

ON A NEW PLAN,

IN WHICH

MENTAL ARITHMETIC IS COMBINED WITH
THE USE OF THE SLATE:

CONTAINING

COMPLETE SYSTEM

FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES;

BEING IN

DOLLARS AND CENTS.

STEREOTYPE EDITION,

REVISED AND ENLARGED,
WITH

EXERCISES FOR THE SLATE.

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KARVARD.
UNIVERSITY

! LIBRARY

47*1301

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit

District Clerk's Office.

Ba 17 REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-first day of January, A. D. 1829 In the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States of Ameri ca, Richardson & Lord, and S. G. Goodrich, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

"Practical and Mental Arithmetic, on a New Plan, in which Mental Arithmetic is combined with the Use of the Slate: containing a Complete System for all practical Purposes; being in Dollars and Cents. Stereotype Edition, revised and enlarged, with Exercises for the Slate. To which is added, a Practical Bystem of Book-Keeping. By Roswell C. Smith."

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, “ An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned" and also to an act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to an act, untitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

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RECOMMENDATIONS.

From the Jan. No. for 1828 of the JOURNAL OF EDUCATION "A careful examination of this valuable work will show that its author has compiled it, as all books for school use ought to be compiled, from the results of actual experiment and observation in the school-Dom. It is entirely a practical work, combining the merits of Colburn's system with copious practice on the slate.

"Two circumstances enhance very much the value of this book. It is very comprehensive, containing twice the usual quantity of matter in works of this class; while, by judicious attention to arrangement and printing, it is rendered, perhaps, the cheapest book in this department of education. The brief system of Book-Keeping, attached to the Arithmetic, will be a valuable aid to more compiete instruction in conimon schools, to which the work is, in other respects, so peculiarly adapted.

"There are several very valuable peculiarities in this work, for which we cannot, in a notice, tind sufficient space. We would recommend a careful examination of the book to all teachers who are desirous of combining good theory with copious and rigid practice."

From the Report of the SCHOOL-COMMITTEE OF PROVIDENCE. "The books at present used in the schools are, in the opinion of mittee, altogether above the range of thought of the pupils. Works of a naryour Comrative character would be better understood, would be more interesting, and would, of course, teach the pupil to read with more taste and judgment. The boy who pores, in utter disgust, over the book which he roads in schools, will hasten home to read with avidity his story-book. The true wisdom would then be, to introduce the story-book into school, and thus render his place of education the place of his amusement.

"Nevertheless, as this subject is one in which time and judgment are neces sary for a selection, and as a change of this sort, through all the schools, would be productive of considerable additional expense, your Committee would recommend that no change, at present, be made in books, excepting only the Arithmetic. If a school, by way of experiment, be established on the monito rial plan, various school-books can be tried there, and, after a fair opportunity of testing the merits of several, those can be selected which scem best adapted to accomplish the purposes of education. Your Committee are, however, of opinion, that it would be expedient to introduce the system of Arithmetic published by Mr. Smith [subsequently adopted] into all the Public Grammar Schools; and, also, that all the scholars in arithmetic be taught by classes, and not individually, as is now the prevalent mode.”

The above Report was signed by the following named gen tleinen:

Rev. F. WAYLAND, Jr., D.D. Pres. Brown Univ., (Chairman.)
Rev. THOMAS T. WATERMAN.

WILLIAM T. GRINNELL, Esq.

Dated April 24, 1828.

This work is recommended by the State-Commissioners of Vermont to be adopted throughout that State. It is likewise introduced into the public and private schools of Hartford, Conn. by the concurrence both of committees and teachers, and in like manner in various other places.

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