Fundamentals of High School Mathematics: A Textbook Designed to Follow Arithmetic (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Harold O. Rugg

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ISBN 10 : 1330081064 ISBN 13 : 9781330081068

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Fundamentals of High School Mathematics

The writers have experimented in the classroom with this reconstructed course of study. Each has taught first-year classes under the critical observation and comment oix the other. The work has eventuated in an important body of material concerning how children learn mathematics. (this material will be presented in a book, The Psychology and Teach ing of junior High School Mathematics, some time during the school year 1919 It has been clearly demonstrated that special products and factoring can be satisfactorily taught and habituated in 7 class periods,-these contrasted with the 30 class periods of the common practice of the day.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The traditional course of study in high school mathematics needs to be completely reconstructed. Five years of intensive investigation have established striking inadequacies in the first-year course: both what we teach and how we teach it. First: more than half of the conventional first-year course will never be used by the vast majority of our pupils. Second: the claims which we make that we are training pupils to think intelligently will be difficult, if not impossible, to substantiate. The very content and organization of the course tends to inhibit this. Most of it provides little or no opportunity for training in problem-solving. Our courses of study emphasize habitformation and rote memory, and these courses are almost exactly determined by the textbook. Finally: standardized tests given to more than 100 high schools show clearly that neither in securing formal skill nor in developing powers of analytical thinking is our instruction satisfactory. Striking needs: (1) courses of study based on a clear-cut program ;(2) a real psychology of how children learn mathematics, expressed through new types of wordy textbooks and manuals of method. Courses must be constructed on principles of social worth and thinking outcomes that have been definitely established. Current courses have not been so organized. The slate should be wiped clean and a new course organized on a clear-cut program. No material should be included which cannot be defended either on the basis of social worth, or upon the probability of relatively worth-while thought power. Furthermore, the present course, as it came down from its former position in the upper college curriculum, has retained that emphasis upon rigorous, logical organization and upon brief alge The evidence which was collected is reported in det|dl inS cientific Method in the Reconstruction of Ninth Grade Mathematics by H. O. R
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1330081064
• ISBN 13: 9781330081068
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 388
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible