Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from National Arithmetic, in Theory and Practice: Designed for the Use of Canadian Schools
The Arithmetic now offered to the public is based upon the Irish National Treatise - in fact, it was at first intended merely to adapt that work to the decimal cur reney, and to abbreviate the somewhat tedious reasons there given for the various rules. So many alterations and improvements suggested themselves, however, that the original design was speedily abandoned, and, with the exception of the first ten or fifteen pages, which are taken entire from the work in question, the Treatise, as at pre sent issued, is, in all essential respects, an entirely new book. Nevertheless, as it was the sole object of the author to prepare a complete text-book on the subject of Arith metic, he has not hesitated to adopt whatever he cousi dered good, either in the Irish National or in the numerous other excellent works on the subject.
By far the greater number of the problems are original; and it is hoped that the practical manner in which many of them are put, will tend to render the study of Arith metic more interesting and useful than it has hitherto been.
It will be observed, that a thorough series of review examples has been given at the close of each of the sections up to the seventh, and a very extensive set at the end of the book. This is deemed an important feature in the present work, as in some degree insisting upon that care ful revis1on of what has been learned from time to time, without which, the pupil arrives at the end of the book with all the rules and principles so confounded with one another, as to render his knowledge in a great measure worthless.
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