Excerpt from The Standard Arithmetic, Vol. 2 of 2: For Schools of All Grades and for Business Purposes

An Arithmetic constructed on a new plan and filled with novel theories and curious problems might serve as a means of mental discipline, but would utterly fail to train youths for business. The precepts and processes representing the accumulated wisdom of the past even Newton did not ignore. There are ponderous treatises on Arithmetic which comprise nearly every principle and formula pertaining to the science. These are for the most part very abstruse, and are, without exception, bulky and expensive.

It has been the aim of the author to make this text-book equal to the most costly as respects facts, principles, processes, and problems, and to make the chapters in general use, such as those on Notation, Denominate Numbers, Common and Decimal Fractions, and Mensuration, even more interesting and more practical than those of the larger volumes, in fine, to furnish a convenient, complete, and cheap manual of arithmetic.

For the sake of convenience and economy the work is published in two parts.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.