The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-11-09
FIGURE PROBLEMS
Gems That Are 10 Be Found IN
the Old ArIthmetics.
ALL or THEM aPRAcTIcAL. I"

"PracticaP Examples re Dua Up
Was education more practical gen
GRAFTON ago. Or did Jonu's father study
his books more thoroughly than John
does? John is seventh grade student
ia the public schools. He asked bis
father to help him solve the following
problem;
"a. asked how much money he has
n the bank. replied If had $40 I
more would have $1,000 more than
half what / now have How much
money had Arr
rsuch fool problem" said the fa-
ther. ssTeII that teacher to ask the
cashier. You have been pestering me
with problems like tbat for a week.
Suppose your teacher asked you bow
old YOU are. Would you tell her 'If
were ten times as old as am, dimin
ished BY forty-two, would be thirty
years older than dad. and II dad were
one-fourth as old az be now Is be
would be my ageY What would your
teacher do If you answered In such a
manner9 In my day we had practical
problems ID our arithmetic"
In order to Investigate his fathers
statement John went 70 tho public II
brary and asked for an old arithEsiic-
The librarian gave him Richards
Natural Arithmetic He turned 70 the
page marked Practical Exercises
and read:
IA puts his whole flock Of sheep into
three pastures. Half 90 into one pas
ture, one-third into another and thirty
two into third. How many in the
nock?''
That's queer" said John. "Prac-
VI teal exercises too. Here is q man who
wants 10 find how many sheep ne has
He counts them SO he will know when
he has half Of them. This half he
puts Into pasture. Then be counts
out d third and puts It IL another pen
Next be counts what's left and flnds
he has thirty-two After little hgur-
ing be finds how many in the whole
\ dock. Very practical guess dad
didn't study that book"
The next book be examined was
Mines Inductive Arithmetic, edition
81 1873. In miscellaneous examples pc
found the following
Two ladders win together just reach
the TOP az a building seventy-Gye feet
high. II the shorter ladder is two
thirds the length of the otner. what Y
the length of each r.
. "Why didn't he measure each ladder
! separatelyg n John asked himself THAT
problem is not practical 1 guess dati
il older than thought. ! want an
+ older book"
) The text written in 1868 was banded
] 10 him. The book was evidently intlu,
! enced by the civil war. for 1t was filled
with problams dealing with batterine
, down foFtlfications and the sustenance
81 soldiers. One problem was;
IF twelve pieces of cannon eight
J. cen poundersl can batter down for
fress fn three hours. how long VIII \
/ take for nineteen twenty.four- pound
ers 10 batter down the same fortresss
sThat's fine for d general" John re
iiected. .'but dad says that am golns
10 be a captain Of industry"
= Another arithmetic Of the same dat
had the famous fish problem will
which Johns teacher had troubled hin
for six weeks before he himself fnalll
! explained it to the class. The fisl
problem Isl
The head Of fish is ten inche
long. Its tail is as long al its head am
one-half the body. The body is as lonl
as the head and tail both. Il Nv long !
the fshg''
Very handy problem for butcher.
John turned to the Common SchoC
I. Arithmetic. edition OF 1858. Her
I'm sura to find something good" b
reflected and reid:
VA hare starts up twelve rods before
Z hound. but she Is not perceived BY BIZ
tlll she has been up one and one-fourt
minutes. she runs at the rate Of thii
ty-six rods minute. and the houn
runs at the rate Of forty rods a mil
ute. How long will the race last. an
what wilI be the distance the houn
nnsy
'What difference does u make no
far the hound runs?" John asked as !
turned to Tile Scholars Arithmetl
edition Of 1907. The present high ccl
Of living made the FIRST problem IL
practical for present day purpose
John concluded. The problem was
follows
If X give eighty bushels Of potato'
at al cents busbel and 24o pounds
fax af is cents pound for sixty fol
bushels Of salt what is the salt wor
a bhshelg
Another problem was;
"a good man driving bis guest
market was met BY another who sal
Good morrow. master With your y
geese. Says he ID reply ! have .
:. 100 geese. but II had half as maj
as now have and two md one-ha
geese besides the number now ha
already / should have 100 Ho
many geese had the mau%
How long would you permit mi
70 live II he made such no answer