Practical Arithmetics

We have been recommending some books for lower grades and have heard good things back from those who have used them. As a convenience to our customers, we now stock them. These books were written in 1934. We like the fact that they don’t jump around. There are many stories that apply the math lessons and relate them to everyday life. These books are reproduced from the original, and come hard bound in 2-year volumes of about 500 pages each. The First Book covers 3rd and 4th grades. (Arithmetic was not taught before 3rd grade until the 1960s.) The Second Book covers 5th and 6th grades. The name of this series is Practical Arithmetics, written by Strayer and Upton.

First Book (covers 3rd & 4th grade)

practical arithmetics first bookThe 3rd grade section of this book goes up to page 256. Some of the concepts that will be covered include numbers to 100, US money, reading and writing numbers; addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts; addition with carrying, subtraction with borrowing, simple multiplication and division, telling time, the calendar, and measures. Story problems are used to apply the math to everyday life. Explanations of new principles and processes are clear and simple. The answers are in the back of the book.

using practical arithmeticsThe 4th grade section of the book starts on page 257. In this section, the student will move on to solving two-step problems, making change, reading and writing numbers, harder addition and subtraction, multiplying up to two 3-digit figures, long division, fractions, finding averages, measures of time, problem solving, measuring length and area, drawing to scale, and other units of measure. All that is learned will be applied through story problems. Again, the answers are in the back of the book.

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Book 2 (covers 5th & 6th grade)

doing practical arithmeticspractical arithmentics second bookThe 5th grade section of this book goes to page 256. Some of what will be covered include cash accounts; harder addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; applying all four functions to fractions, problem solving, comparing numbers, bills, measures, areas, scale drawing, volumes, graphs, reading and writing decimals; and adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals. There are lots of story problems, which apply the math to everyday life. Explanations of new principles and processes are clear and simple. The answers are in the back of the book.

We recommend skipping the 6th grade section of this book, and moving the student on to Level 6 of our DVD math program.

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Dear Paul,

I have been wanting to write for some time now, but as a "green" teacher, I have had much on my plate. Now that things are getting more settled, I wanted to talk to you about your curriculum. First and foremost. I love it! We introduced math the third day of school, explaining how it would work, etc. About half of our twenty students made comments like "I hate math!...ooohhhhh, do we have to?" The one student that was the most vocal is the furthest ahead now in her group of students. Almost impossible to get her to do something else sometimes. When I jokingly asked the class to remind me what she had said about math she just laughed. "Oh, oh I know, but I like it now."

As a teacher, I am truly enjoying being able to understand it myself and help the students myself. If not, some of the other students who have done the previous lesson can fill me in, and it makes sense immediately most of the time. Some of the girls think that they really can't do it, and then they whip out an assignment in minutes sometimes. So fun to watch. I have added to my own learning so much. I have been reading a book about the "human calculator" and we are incorporating some of the other methods he uses for times tables, and fractions and it has really helped me to get a greater understanding of some basic principles.

One of my favorite parts of your system is how practical it really is. I started to see from the beginning that it was real math with real application. I could also see how you set it up literally line upon line and precept on precept. Which fits so well with the goals we have for the school to build a foundation of understanding and learning. We have moved several of the older kids into Math Rescue because most of them should be in algebra, but the foundation is so important that I am having them do that first. They are moving pretty fast, sometimes several lessons a day. The method we use in the class is referred to as mastery.

They self check their work with the answers and just a red pen or pencil, and then they have to go back to their desk and correct the problem areas. Then they have to explain to me where they went wrong, and show me how they refigured it before they can move on to the next lesson. Overall, I am seeing the lights go on in their heads. Very exciting.

Anyway, thank you for developing this system. It is a joy to work with and see the students actually comprehending the stuff they are doing.

Thank you again,
CornerStone Academy

 
 
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