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Excerpt from New Mental Arithmetic, for Primary Departments The following Suggestions are submitted, not as arbitrary rules, but as practical hints, to be adopted so fax only as they meet the wants of the class. 1. The best mode of instruction, is that which most effectually awakens a pupils attention, and creates in him a determination to educate himself. Any method; therefore, which does not lead him to think and reason, is of little or no value, because it fails to develop the elements of manhood. 2. Beginners in Mental Arithmetic should be furnished with suitable tools, as slates, blackboards, numeral frames, counters, counting boards, etc., and be taught to use them in learning to count, and in illustrating the elementary combinations and principles of numbers. 3. After children learn to repeat the names of numbers, particular care should be taken that they comprehend the meaning of the terms; that they have a correct idea of more and less; that eleven, for example, is more than seven and less than thirteen. Their minds should also be carried forward from concrete to abstract numbers, and from particular to their universal application. On being asked the meaning of three, a child once showed his third finger the one which he had been accustomed to count in the third place. 4. Do not attempt to teach too many things at one lesson. 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.