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Excerpt from Mental Arithmetic
This work is designed for use in grammar grades. It may also be used with advantage for review work in high schools and normal schools. Mental or oral arithmetic when properly developed and taught not only does more' than any other agency in giving pupils insight into the real nature of number and numerical relations, but it also adds keenness to the mind in general and strengthens its power of concentration. To be thus efficacious, however, any coursein mental arithmetic must be based upon sound peda gogic principles and proceed along sound pedagogic lines. 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.