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THE widespread attention that has been given during the last decade to the study of elementary mathematics has had a most salutary effect on the teaching of arithmetic, as is evidenced by the improved text-books that are now available and illustrated by the five books under review. The claims of science, the laboratory, and the workshop are coming to be adequately recognised, and commercial arithmetic is not allowed unduly to dominate the course. Moreover, some amount of experimental and quantitative work is done in connection with the subject, and associated more or less closely with decimal measurements, mensuration, approximate methods of computation, and perhaps with the use of tables of logarithms and even of sines and cosines. Again, algebraical notions and graphical processes are naturally and inevitably much in evidence. Altogether the treatment is on broader lines, the examples are drawn from a wider region, and are in much closer contact with common every-day experiences.
(1) A School Arithmetic.
With Answers. By H. S. Hall and F. H. Stevens. Pp. xiii+475+xxxix. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1908.) Price with answers, 4s. 6d., without answers, 3s. 6d.
(2) A Modern Arithmetic, with Graphic and Practical Exercises.
By H. Sydney Jones. Pp. xiv+598. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1908.) Price, with or without answers, 4s. 6d.
(3) Advanced Arithmetic and Elementary Algebra and Mensuration.
A Text-book for Secondary Schools and Students preparing for Public Examinations. By P. Goyen. Pp. xii+435. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1908.) Price 3s. 6d.
(4) Elementary Mensuration.
By W. M. Baker A. A. Bourne. Pp. vi+144. (London: George Bell and Sons, 1908.) Price 1s. 6d.
(5) Practical Arithmetic and Mensuration.
By Frank Castle. Pp. viii+249. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1908.) Price 2s.
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(1) A School Arithmetic (2) A Modern Arithmetic, with Graphic and Practical Exercises (3) Advanced Arithmetic and Elementary Algebra and Mensuration (4) Elementary Mensuration (5) Practical Arithmetic and Mensuration. Nature 79, 156–157 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079156a0
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