Excerpt from How to Teach Arithmetic: A Manual for Teachers and a Textbook for Normal Schools

This book was written for the purpose of improving the teaching of arithmetic. That arithmetic is poorly taught is indicated by the fact that a larger percentage of children fail in it than in any other subject. The experience of the authors in training prospective teachers and in institute work confirms them in the opinion that the subject is suffering partly because many teachers lack instruction in its theories, methods, and devices. The authors do not assume that method can be substituted for scholarship, but they do contend that teachers as a class want and need definite advice in the teaching of arithmetic. The demands of reading circles, of special methods classes in normal school and in normal high schools, and of supervisors, but more especially the needs of the classroom teacher, were kept in mind in the preparation of this book.

The number of pages given to the discussion of a topic is no index of the relative importance of the topic in the curriculum; it rather indicates whether a subject is well or poorly taught. However, some chapters are elaborated at greater length than others for the reason that their material is intrinsically or historically more interesting.

This book was not written to exploit any particular textbook or theory or method. It is a simple and accurate exposition of the best methods employed in teaching the subject today.

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