New York Teachers Monographs Vol 7

Excerpt from New York Teachers' Monographs, Vol. 7: March, 1905 To the teacher who is a mere time server, years of experience bring to her but little save that it makes her more mechanical and worthless as the years go by. She does not learn to do by doing. 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.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...for 22 cents, two ounces of pepper for 5 cents, a bag of salt for 5 cents, and a bag of oatmeal for 28 cents; how much did she-pay for all? (5) Write the Roman numbers for 10, 9, 12, 6, 3. (6) There were 25 children in one room, 36 in another, 48 in another and 54 in another; how many children were there in the 4 rooms? (7 ) A farmer picked 48 quarts of strawberries; he sold 35 quarts; how many quarts had he left? (8) Charles bought a wheel for $35 and sold it for $29; how much did he lose? (9) If you pay $1.12 for a yard of cloth, how much change will you receive if you give the Mental. (1) 4 + 8 + 5--4--3 X 2: ? (2) There are 8 children sitting in a row; how many children are there in 6 rows? (3) How many apples are there in F/4 of a dozen? (4) How many pint bottles can be filled with 6 quarts of milk? (5) Y5 of 25: ? (6) A boy was on board a steamer 2 days; how many hours was he on board? (7) At 2 cents a pint, how much will 2 quarts of milk cost? (8) If oranges are 2 cents each, how much will 1 dozen cost? (9) Fred gave M; of his marbles to John; if he had 20, how many did he give away? (10) At 6 cents each, how much will 7 paper dolls cost? W ritten. (1) Ruth weighs 48 pounds and Edith weighs 45 pounds. How much do they both weigh? (2) George can throw a ball 36 yards and Paul can throw it 60 yards; how much farther can Paul throw the ball than George? (3) Three tables cost $75; at that rate, how much will 1 table cost? (4) There are 35 bananas in a bunch; how many are there in 9 bunches? (5) Henry had $16.44; Charles had $4.63 more than Henry; how much money had Charles? (6) There are 376 pounds of tea in one box, and there are 5 boxes on the wagon; how much did the load weigh? (7) A storekeeper put $87.09 in the bank the first day.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... You need a subordinating connective. Emphasize or bring out more clearly your central thought. iiiiiiii 6A-6B Code for Whole Composition Structure W. C. 1. Your beginning is not attractive. Supply an interesting introduction. W. C. 2. The sentences of your introductory paragraph are not properly connected. W. C. 3. They are not in the right order. W. C. 4. The main thought or idea expressed in the central paragraph is not clear, impressive or prominent enough. VV. C. 5. This paragraph needs more explanation or illustration or detail or incidents or application or expanding or condensing or variety. W. C. 6 You have not selected the main essential theme for this central paragraph. W. C. 7. Your arrangement can be improved. W. C. 8. Your final paragraph does not sum up and drive home your central essential' idea or theme. End strongly. W. C. 9. This sentence belongs to another paragraph. W. C. 10. This sentence is not needed. W. C. 11. You need another sentence to prove V your. statement. W. C. 12. You need more variety of expression in con nectives and in the form of your sentences. 6B Code for Correct Grammatical Forms See 6A Code in this issue of TEACHERS llONOGRAHPS and add the following: X Gram. 11. You have used a preposition, incorrectly. X Gram. 12. You have used a conjunction. incorrectly. X Gram. 13. You have used an interjection, incorrectly. X Gram. 14. Invert the order of your sentence elements; subject, predicate compliment. modifier. X Gram. 15. Your modifier is wrong. i X Gram. 16. Your modifier'is in the wrong position. subject, predicate complement, modifier. / Gram. 17. You should use an adverbial modifier. The food will be ready at noon. The mud oozed up from the bank. You saw it yourself. Write the figure three...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...Week. Oral.--Reading numbers. Continued practice. Roman numerals, DC-DCC. Counting. By 6's, beginning with 4, 5, 6. Addition. Continue drill. 'Subtraction--98--39; 47--19; 65--47. Multiplication---Review table of 7's. DivisionReview table of 7's. Separating numbers to 144 into two factors. (1) Give an exact divisor of 32. (2) What number is a multiple of 8 and 6? (3) Find the smallest number _ that is a factor of 18. ' Measurement.--Develop square yard. (1) On the blackboard draw a square having each side a yard long. (2) Divide it into square feet. (3) How many square feet are there? Fractions.--Finding one or more of the equal parts of multiples of 7. Adding and substracting whole numbers and mixed numbers, as: 7% pt. +8; 7-1-1%; 8% lb. 4-2, etc. Subtract--lO% yd.---7; 8%---7; 6%--2, etc. Problems.--l. If it takes 3% yards of cloth for a coat and 1% yards for a vest, how many yards will it take for both? 2. A boy has $2%. How much will he have after he spends $%. 3. If a geography costs sy, a reader $%, and a grammar $%, what will he have paid for the three books?---Wt1l_'l1'$ N ew Primary A rithmetic, Part Two. Written.--Writing numbers. Continued practice. tion and subtraction. Continued practice. Multiplication.--By 70. Numbers of three orders by numbers of three orders, cipher in tens' place. Multiply by 70? 605, $87.25; 6,098, 3,003, $47.28, etc. Multiply 381 807, 724 X 709, etc.. Division Short.--Long. Continued practice. Shofl-r 6,000,075 by 79,076,924 by 7, etc. Divide and prove-281,596 + 452; 60,124 + 342; 120,832 + 512. Measurements.--Square yard. 1. Change 75 square Yards to square feet. 2. How many square yards in a room the area of which is 276 square feet? 3. Reduce 83 square...