In these series the best modern methods of instruction have been combined with those older features which gave the author's previous arithmetics such marvelous popularity.
As poor, from our point of view, as most of these old Arithmetics were, George Washington cordially recommended Pike’s as “of great assistance to children desiring to learn the art of figuring.
The first publications of the reorganized company were Graded Classics Readers and Colaw and Ellwood’s Arithmetics in 1900, both of which series were remarkably successful.
The arithmetics in English known to me are:-- (1) Bodl.
In the older arithmetics it was confused by pedantries and verbal difficulties and penalized by unreal problems about fractions of men doing parts of a job in strange and devious times.
The frequency of appearance in the first fifty pages of eight beginners' arithmetics was as shown in Table 9.
The manuscript arithmetics or "sum-books" which I have seen were always done in ink.
That arithmetics in former times were too abstract, too little applied to the business of life, is undoubtedly true.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arithmetics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
