Excerpt from Elementary Arithmetic

First, -to secure a high degree of facility in the funda mental Operations and in those other processes which, in the actual business of life, are reduced to purely mechanical forms of computation.

Second, -to cultivate in pupils the habit of forming vivid mental pictures of the business transactions introduced in the exercises, and of the commercial and industrial relations of the numbers involved in the problems.

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