This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... be well to review it, thus making the pupils' knowledge fresh, and greatly adding to their interest in the exercises in the book. The operations in United States money present no difficulty to pupils who have a knowledge of decimal fractions. When United States money is taught before decimals, the pupil? should be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... be well to review it, thus making the pupils' knowledge fresh, and greatly adding to their interest in the exercises in the book. The operations in United States money present no difficulty to pupils who have a knowledge of decimal fractions. When United States money is taught before decimals, the pupil? should be made familiar with the first three decimal orders--tenths, hundredths, and thousandths. This can be done in one or two lessons by the method sketched on page 69. When pupils can read any decimal composed of one, two, or three orders, and have learned that cents are hundredths of a dollar, and mills thmisandths, they will readily understand why cents occupy the first two decimal orders and mills the third. The separatrix between dollars and cents corresponds with the decimal point. The reduction of United States money may be taught as an application of the reduction of decimals, or as the reduction of denominate numbers. The exorcises should be multiplied until the reduction of dollars to cents, dollars to mills, W. M. 7. cents to mills, mills to cents, cents to dollars, etc., can be made instantly. Many classes have failed when subjected to an examination on these reductions. Another process deserving special attention, is the division of one sum of money by another (Lesson IV). The first step is to reduce both dividend and divisor to the same denomination. Show that dollars can not be divided by cents, or cents by mills; that dollars must be divided by dollars, cents by cents, and mills by mills. The lesson on Bills is one of great practical value, and should be thoroughly taught. The solution of the problems in the book should be supplemented by actual practice in making out bills on paper, receipting them, etc. The items included in the severa...
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