SUBJECT MATTER AND METHODS l6l 



pupils are told how men borrow money, pay for its use, and 

 return it; how securities are given as a safeguard for the 

 Simple money borrowed. No difficult problems are 



Interest given, and no special rule or method is in- 



sisted upon for rinding the interest. Many problems are 

 given, the simpler ones being worked orally, while the more 

 difficult ones are worked out on the board or paper. 



SEVENTH YEAR GRADE 



Accuracy, rapidity, neatness, these are the three require- 

 ments kept constantly before the seventh grades. Pupils 



who have remained in school until this year 

 Course 



will, if passed in their studies, ordinarily 



continue until the end of the grammar grades. Conse- 

 quently, the work of the seventh and eighth grades can be 

 planned together as a whole more safely than any other two 

 consecutive grades. There are many and frequent exer- 

 cises in rapid addition of ledger columns and of simpler 

 sums. Mental work is continued in combinations of two 

 or more figures, a feature of the exercises in all of the 

 grammar grades. The Arabic and Roman notations are 

 completed. The textbook presentation of common and 

 decimal fractions is finished during this year, although 

 drills on these subjects are important so long as the pupil 

 is in school. The pupils are made familiar with several 

 more tables, taken concretely at first, if possible. These 

 are troy weight, dry measure, paper and books, English 

 money, and counting table. Subtraction of dates; lumber 

 measure; city blocks; cost of building walks, fences, grad- 

 ing streets, excavating, and similar work, all belong to the 

 seventh grade. The pupils measure walks and fences that 

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