Primary methods; a complete and methodical presentation of the use of kindergarten material in the work of the primary school, unfolding a systematic course of manual training in connection with arithmetic, geometry, drawing, and other school studies
A late nineteenth-century American teacher's manual by William Nicholas Hailmann, published in New York and Chicago in 1887 for primary school teachers using kindergarten materials. Its pictures are numbered line diagrams of geometric figures, with squares, circles, and triangles divided and shaded into parts, showing how shapes combine and decompose. A designer might take from them a clear system for building compositions from circles, squares, and interlocking forms.
