Ray's New Primary Arithmetic · Lesson LXXXIII · Unit 8: Money, weights and measures
83. Dry measure: quarts, pecks and bushels
Goal: Your child knows the dry measures and changes between them.
You'll need
- A quart container if you have one
- A slate, small whiteboard or paper and pencil
What's in the book
The table: 2 pints make 1 quart; 8 quarts make 1 peck; 4 pecks make 1 bushel. Then problems about meal, apples, oats and berries.
The lesson, step by step
Where you see it
Pecks and bushels still show up at orchards and farm stands, and in the Bible ("hide your light under a bushel").
The table
Read it. How many quarts in a bushel? (8 × 4 = 32.)
Book problems
Work through the page.
Afterwards
Buy a peck of apples and count how many quarts it fills.
Answers to the book's problems
7. 28 cents. 8. 1 cent. 9. 3 pecks. 10. 16 quarts. 11. He got 12 dollars and made 6 dollars. 12. 2 pecks; 70 cents. 13. 7 bushels.
Worked out for this site from the scan. If a number in your copy differs, trust the book.