Excerpt from Principles and Methods of Teaching Arithmetic Successful teaching of arithmetic is impossible unless the teacher and supervisor have a correct and clearly formulated. Conception of the ends they are trying to realize through their teaching of the subject. This truth is so self-evident as to be axiomatic, but in spite of this fact many teachers of the subject have only a vague idea of what they are trying to do. Perhaps the majority of teachers have no object in View except to so teach that their pupils will be able to work the problems in the text' from day to day and to pass examinations. Indefinite and mistaken ideas of the purpose of the work in arithmetic are responsible for more poor teaching of the subject than any other one thing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.