Arithmetic Essentiats. Drushel, Noonan, Whithers. Three vol- 

 tunes illustrated, published by Lyons and Camahan, Chicago 

 & New York. 



As one recalls the various arithmetics that have been written 

 in the past fifty years, one doubts if there could be anything 

 new in a text of this basic study. However, these three volumes 

 are new, for on every page they get at the principles of arithme- 

 tic from the angle of arousing the interest of the pupil. Book I 

 is for the little folks and its aim is to make the children realize 

 many of the uses of arithmetic. Games of mathematical sorts 

 are introduced, — dominoes for children to make them count, 

 playhouses, marbles, the buying of play things, postage stamps, 

 tickets for the movies, fruit, candy, pie, chocolate, nine-pins, 

 furniture, clocks, baseball, all used to interest the children in 

 numbers. Book II deals with the interests of grown-ups that 

 may also interest children of the intermediate grades, using as a 

 means the problems of the thrift garden, of elementary business, 

 drawing to a scale, making maps, etc. Book III is for the seventh 

 and eighth grades and teaches the use of graphs, tables, and 

 equations in problem solving. Business forms and practices, 

 construction and the measurement of surfaces, time reckoning 

 and travel, taxation and interest, and thrift saving accounts and 

 many other interesting means are used to train the pupils in the 

 principles and practices of arithmetic. 



This series is as interesting as it is practical and is practical 

 because it is interesting. The authors are teachers of high 

 standing and broad experience. They are J. Andrew Drushel, 

 A. B., Teacher of .the Pedagogy of Arithmetic, Harris Teachers 

 College; Margaret E. Noonan, Ph. D., Professor of Elementary 

 Education, New York University; and John W. Withers, 

 Ph. D., Dean of the School of Education, New York University. 



These arithmetics are already in use and the following is the 

 testimony of the Principal of one of the most noted schools in the 



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