The Elements of High School Mathematics Comprising Arithmetic, Practical Geometry, and Algebra (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Elements of High School Mathematics Comprising Arithmetic, Practical Geometry, and Algebra<br><br>Never was the recognition of pedagogical demands so general among teachers of high school mathematics as it is today. Nor was it ever so clearly apparent as it is today that the problem of the teacher of mathematics is chiefly a problem of a two-fold adaptation of material: first, to individual needs; second, to the community need. Both needs being in continual change, the latter very markedly, reorganization is always opportune.<br><br>That we are now in a special sense in a period of reorganization is supported also by pertinent evidence. The Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary School Mathematics of the National Education Association, after three years of work, has recently published, through the United States Bureau of Education, its body of conclusions as to a plan of very radical reorganization of the courses in high school mathematics. About a year ago the National Committee on Mathematical Requirements in Secondary Schools also issued its now famous Secondary School Circular, 1920, No. 5, on the Reorganization of the Early Courses in High School Mathematics. The latter committee worked under the auspices of the Mathematical Association of America, and had in its membership a representative of every section of the nation and of every segment of the American school system. Both of these very significant reports urged thorough-going reorganization of existing courses: curtailing and eliminating much old matter and introducing much new material; but leaving the questions of form of organization and mode of presentation of the material open to individual preference.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.