SCHOOLMASTER'S ASSISTANT.

IMPROVED AND ENLARGED.

BEING A

PLAIN PRACTICAL SYSTEM

OF

ARITHMETICK.

ADAPTED TO

THE UNITED STATES.

BY NATHAN DABOLL.

WITH THE ADDITION OF THE

FARMERS' AND MECHANICKS' BEST

METHOD OF BOOK-KEEPING,

DESIGNED AS A

COMPANION TO DABOLL'S ARITHMETICK.

BY SAMUEL GREEN.

ITHACA, N. Y.,

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MACK, ANDRUS AND WOODRUFE

1837.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1825, by SAMUEL GREEN, in the Clerk's Office of the district of Connecticut.

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52744 RECOMMENDATIONS.

Yale College, Nov. 27, 1799.

I HAVE read DABOLL'S SCHOOLMASTER'S ASSISTANT. The arrangement of the different branches of Arithmetic is judicious and perspicuous. The author has well explained Decimal Arithmetic, and has applied it in a plain and elegant manner in the solution of various questions, and especially to those relative to the Federal Computation of money. I think it will be a very useful book to Schoolmasters and their pupils.

JOSIAH MEIGS, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. [Now Surveyor-General of the United States.]

I HAVE given some attention to the work above mentioned, and concur with Mr. Professor Meigs in his opinion of its merit. NOAH WEBSTER.

New-Haven Dec. 12, 1799.

Rhode-Island College, Nov. 30, 1799.

I HAVE run through Mr. DABOLL'S SCHOOLMASTER'S ASSISTANT, and have formed of it a very favourable opinion. According to its original design, I think it well" calculated to furnish Schools in general with a methodical, easy, and comprehensive System of Practical Arithmetic." I therefore hope it may find a generous patronage, and have an extensive spread.

ASA MESSER, Professor of the Learned Languages, and teacher of Mathematics.

[Now President of that Institution.]

Plainfield Academy, April 20, 1802

I MAKE use of DABOLL'S SCHOOLMASTER'S ASSISTANT in teaching common Arithmetic, and think it the best calculated for that purpose of any which has fallen within my observation. JOHN ADAMS,

Rector of Plainfield Academy. [Now Principal of Philips' Academy, Andover, Mass.]

Billerica Academy, (Mass.) Dec. 10, 1807.

HAVING examined Mr. DABOLL's System of Arithmetic, I am pleased with the judgment displayed in his method, and the perspicuity of his explanations, and thinking it as easy and comprehensive a system as any with which I am acquainted, can cheerfully recommend it to the patronage of Instructers. SAMUEL WHITING,

Teacher of Mathematics.

From Mr. Kennedy, Teacher of Mathematics.

I BECAME acquainted with DABOLL'S SCHOOLMASTER'S ASSISTANT, in the year 1802, and on examining it attentively, gave it my decisive preference to any other system extant, and immediately adopted it for the pupils under my charge; and since that time have used it exclusively in elementary tuition, to the great advantage and improvement of the student, as well as the ease and assistance of the preceptor. I also deem it equally well calculated for the benefit of individuals in private instruction; and think it my duty to give the labour and ingenuity of the author the tribute of my hearty approval and recommendation." ROGER KENNEDY

New-York, March 20, 1811.

PREFACE.

THE design of this work is to furnish the schools of the nited States with a methodical and comprehensive system of Practical Arithmetic, in which I have endeavoured, through the whole, to have the rules as concise and familiar as the nature of the subject will permit.

During the long period which I have devoted to the instruction of youth in Arithmetic, I have made use of various systems which have just claims to scientific merit; but the authors appear to have been deficient in an important point-the practical teacher's experience. They have been too sparing of examples, especially in the first rudiments; in consequence of which, the young pupil is hurried through the ground rules too fast for his capacity. This objection I have endeavoured to obviate in the following treatise.

In teaching the first rules, I have found it best to encourage the attention of scholars by a variety of easy and familiar questions, which might serve to strengthen their minds as their studies grew more arduous.

The rules are arranged in such order as to introduce the most simple and necessary parts, previous to those which are more abstruse and difficuit.

To enter into a detail of the whole work would be tcdious; I shall therefore notice only a few particulars, and refer the reader to the contents.

Although the Federal Coin is purely decimal, it is so nearly allied to whole numbers, and so absolutely necessary to be understood by every one, that I have introduced it immediately after addition of whole numbers, and also shown how to find the value of goods therein, immediately after simple multiplication; which may be of great adven tage to many, who perhaps will not have an opportunity of learning fractions.

In the arrangement of fractions, I have taken new method, the advar tages and facility of w sufficiently apologize fr its not beliggÝ