LESSONS AT HOME

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 175, 21 April 1937, Page 17

LESSONS AT HOME

Further Instalment of Arithmetic SUCCESS OF SCHEME Headmasters Plan An Extension PALMERSTON NORTH SEEKS TO PARTICIPATE The sixth set of lessons to be done at home to-day by children attending schools in the Wellington education district (and other children who are Instructed to do them), appear below. Arrangements have been made by the education board to send supplies of the large envelopes, which can be used 12 times, to all schools in the district. At a meeting of headmasters yesterday to plan the introduction of new subjects, it was reported that 98 per cent, of the children are carrying out the tasks allotted to them. The whole of the work is being set out very neatIv, and the helpful co-operation of parents has assisted the education board to make a success of the scheme. A request has been made to the board on behalf of the headmasters of Palmerston North for permission to use the lessons as published daily in “The Dominion” for teaching the children in that area. The headmasters have been Informed, that there is no objection to their using the lessons, and samples of the new envelope have been forwarded to them. Managers of orphanages in Wellington have been having a worrying time supervising the lessons of their charges, and a request has been made to the education board for teaching assistance ARITHMETIC Assignment No. 6 STANDARD 1. Remember to get someone to give you another 20 adding sums (answers less than 20). Tell your teacher how many you got right. A.—

(1) 3d. X 12 = (2) 7d. X 12 = 3) 43d. X 12 = 14) lid. X 12 = (5) Is. Id. X 12 = (6) Is. 3d. X 12 = (7) Is. BJd. X 12 = (8) 2s. 3d. X 12 = If you have found a quick way of doing these sums, write it down. STANDARD 4. A. —Mental. Write down the answers: (1) How many shillings in 72d.? (2) How many minutes in 1-} hours? (3) How many ounces in ljlbs.? (4) What is one-third of a £? (5) One dozen articles at 3jd. each. (6) I spent two half-crowns in a grocer’s shop. What change should I receive if I hand the grocer-a ten-shilling note? (7) A family obtains a quart of milk daily during April. What is the milk bill at 6}d. a quart? (8) How many lbs. in a quarter? (9) How many lbs. in jewt.? (10) How many weeks in a year? B. —Mechanical. (1) 78695 + 35786 + 28957 + 899 + 27G43. (2) 416586 — 79867. (3) 48369 -F- 27. (4) 3674 X 58. (5) £l3 14s. 7d. + £2B 17s. Bd. + £l5 9s. lid. + £27 15s. Bd. + £9 Bs. sd. FORM I. MENTAL—(I) In 600 seconds, how many minutes? (2) A yard of wire is cut into 8 equal parts. How long is each part? (3) If half my money is os. od., what is a quarter of my money? (4) Write in words 50,015,005. (5) What is the difference in value between 100 pence and 100 halfpence? (6) If 181 b. cost 3s. od., what will

61b. cost? (7) How many oranges at 5 a shilling can bo bought for £1 10s.? (8) If a clock gains 5 minutes a day, how many minutes will it gain in a fortnight? (9) How far is it; to walk twice round an oblong garden 60ft. by 40ft.? (10) What change is left from a florin after spending 104 d.? WRITTEN—

(1) 578 X 67. (2) How many square feet of carpet will cover a room 20ft. long and 18ft. wide?

(3) Reduce 2051 halfpence to £ s. d. (4) Bill: 51b. apples at sd. a lb.; 61b. pears at 7d. a lb.; 1 dozen lemons at 2 for lid.; 18 oranges at 2s. Od. per dozen. (5) The milk van of a train carried 20 cans of milk, each containing 18 gallons. How many pinta altogether. (6) A boy worked 20 sums in Ihr. 21min. 40sec. What was the average time taken for each sum? (7) A plumber works from 8.30 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. and takes ah hour and a quarter for dinner. What are his wages for three days at 2s. 3d. per hour? (8) What is the weight in tons and cwt. of 40 bags of potatoes each containing 841 b.? FORM 11. MENTAL—(I) What fraction of £1 is 15s. od.? (2) Find the cost of 12 things at 15s. od. each? (3) Find the cost of 40 things at 15s. Od. each. (4) Express 12s. 6d. as a fraction of £l. (5) Find the cost of 24 articles at 12s. 6d. each. (6) Express 13s. 4d. as a fraction of £l. (7) Find the cost of 9 tilings at 13s. 4d. each. (8) Find the cost of 30 things at 13s. 4d. each. (9) What will 400 books cost at ss. Od. each? , (10) What will 160 stamps cost at lid. each? WRITTEN—(I) Find the value of: (a) 25 per cent, of £lO. (h) 40 per cent, of 25 gallons, (c) 75 per cent, of lOcwt. (d) 68 per cent, of £5. (e) 125 per cent, of 24 yards. (2) Express as fractions and then as percentages: (a) ss. Od. of £l. (h) 1/of £5. (c) 3s. 6<l. of 10s. Od. (d) 561 b. of lewt. (e) £1 ss. of £l. (3) A man’s salary is £250 a year, lie spends 90 per cent, of it. How much does he save in a year? (4) 'l’he population of a town was 24,680 in 1925. Tn 1935 it had increased by 5 per cent. What was the population in 1935.

(5) How many pints are there in 75 per cent, of 36 gallons?

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