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A First Practical Training in Arithmetic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

The following practical suggestions are offered as an answer to the question of ever-increasing interest, “How, when, where, shall the child begin arithmetic?”

The importance of the science of number, as a great teacher has shown, is enormous, not only in its relation to the study of abstract mathematics and in its dominance over the prosperity of nations, but in the fact that it is the “conclusive science which we have to apply all our days to all our affairs.”

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Research Article
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1907 

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