Excerpt from Primary Arithmetic
The following ideas have been prominent in the preparation of this book:
1. In sequence of topics, to follow as closely as possible such of the recent courses of study as have been the most carefully prepared for our public-school systems. However an author may feel as to details, he is in the main bound by the consensus of opinion as thus expressed. The purely "topical method," the attempt to exhaust a subject like common fractions in a single chapter, is now obsolete in our leading schools, while the extreme "spiral method" is scrappy, uninteresting, and lacking in the continuity so essential to thoroughness. Between these two comes the best type of our modem courses of study, somewhat spiral in arrangement, in that most subjects extend over several terms, but admitting of a topical arrangement within any one term, thus securing thoroughness and maintaining an interest.
2. In arrangement by grades, to offer merely a tentative plan easily modified to suit local conditions. Schools cannot all be graded alike, but it will assist teachers to know that the successive chapters represent the average work of the first four school years. Teachers are advised to introduce the book at the middle of the second year, reviewing the first chapter and a half as may be necessary.
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