Excerpt from Friedrich Froebel's Pedagogics of the Kindergarten: Or, His Ideas Concerning the Play and Playthings of the Child Here, too, begins the mathematical or quantitative idea. For the eight small cubes are repetitions of the same unit, and likewise equal parts of the large cube. Thus multipli cation and division, and the two numerical series, integers, and fractions, are learned by the child at the same time that he is beginning to use the highly significant cate gory of outer and inner. With play nothing should be permitted to exist without relation to something else (p. 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.