Many scholars have difficulty in giving the correct answer to the question, What are the three kinds of fractions? The following is all that is needed to fix the answer in mind.
Give the PROPER answer. If you give the IMPROPER you will be MIXED. These capitalized words are the three kinds of fractions.
Think of a fraction as a part of a whole. When the fraction becomes a whole, or more than a whole, it is Improper. It needs to be changed to make it a unit, or a Mixed fraction, a unit and a part.
The Multiplication Tables
These are a problem which every one has to work with and because the use of them requires speed to be most valuable there must be a certain amount of repetition in learning them.
The Multiplication Game
The aim is to teach children their multiplication tables by visual repetition and at the same time to introduce the game spirit, thus to increase the interest and to prolong the period of effort without fatigue.
The child can work with these cards himself and thus by self instruction can learn this most difficult lesson of Arithmetic, and without any possibility of error, accuracy is insured.
The equipment consists of a series of eleven pieces of cardboard about 2×6 inches on which are printed in large black numbers the tables without the answers.
A series of ten odd shaped cards is then made and the digits printed on them in bright red. The following are the suggested shapes for the ten digit cards.