Excerpt from Industrial Arithmetic: An Elementary d104 for Boys in Industrial, Technical, Vocational and Trade Schools, Both Day and Evening Firsts - To review and give drill in the mathematical tools needed by boys in the shops during the first year of the Industrial High School. S caoud. - To give some of the problems the boys must handle in the school shops and may have to handle in practical life. Many of the problems have been taken from the shops of the Wm. L. Dickinson High School. T bird - To introduce the idea of general positive number, its use in formula and in simple equations, thereby, incidentally, giving some preparation for the course in algebra. No formal approach to algebra, however, is intended. 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.