Excerpt from The Normal Elementary Arithmetic: Embracing a Course of Easy and Progressive Exercises in Elementary Written Arithmetic; Designed for Primary Schools, and Primary Classes in Common Schools, Graded Schools, Model Schools, Etc Simplicity. - Great care has been taken to make the definitions, explanations, solutions, rules, etc. So simple that the youngest pupils can easily under stand them. Tu doing this, however, the scientific character of the subject has not been sacrificed; for it should ever be remembered that the highest science is the greatest simplicity; and, conversely, the greatest simplicity is the highest science. 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.