Note.-Give at least one hundred similar drill examples,

in ten successive lessons.

8. Decimal Fractions. [Tenths.]

Directions.-Send your pupils to the blackboards, and let them write and read examples like the following, without going into any philosophical explanation whatever. At this stage, the point is to do something.

(6.) .7 -.4.3

Give at least ten lessons, each containing from ten to

Send the class to the boards and give similar examples.

In the same way take .3, .4, .5.

11. Addition of Common and Decimal Fractions.

12. Table.

10 cents 1 dime.

10 dimes 1 dollar.

Pass a dollar, a dime, and a cent around the class, and give easy practical questions. Make the sign of dollars, and give simple questions in adding dollars.

.8

.9

1.6

1.4

2.1

1.2

1.0

The teacher will give five lessons of five examples each,

similar to the above.

SECTION III.-THIRD YEAR OR TERM.

1. Adding by tens, twenties, thirties, forties, etc.

Models.

10

40

10

10

30

Divide each amount in the preceding examples by 3—thus:

The teacher will give five similar lessons of ten examples each.

2. Multiplying and dividing tens, twenties, thirties, forties, etc., by one,

The teacher will dictate five similar lessons of ten ex

amples each.

5. Table of Federal Money to be Learned.

SECTION IV.-DRILL EXERCISES IN THE FOUR RULES.

I. ADDITION.

Direction. Put this table on the blackboard; with a pointer, point out successively different numbers to be combined with the number at the head of the column. As, pointing to 11, the combination will be 5 + 11 = 16, etc. Let the class answer in concert and singly.

METHODS OF TEACHING.

Add the first column under "5" downwards and upwards, until the scholar has thoroughly mastered it. Do not allow pupils to repeat five and ten are fifteen, five and six are eleven, five and eleven are sixteen, etc., but require them to point on the blackboard to each figure in the column, and give only results; downwards thus: 15, 11, 16, 10, 9, 6, 8, 12, 17, 14, 7, 13; upwards, 13, 7, 14, 17, 12, 8, 6, 9, 10, 16, 11, 15.

Add the other columns in the same manner.