Problems in the Teaching of Secondary Mathematics an Address Delivered Before the New England Association of Teachers of Mathematics (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Problems in the Teaching of Secondary Mathematics an Address Delivered Before the New England Association of Teachers of Mathematics But the question cannot be dismissed in any such way as this. Other subjects have been seemingly as well in trenched as mathematics, and yet they have passed away. Formal logic was at one time one of the great features of a liberal education it gave place, in the secondary school, to formal grammar, but a university course in formal logic is now a rarity, and a high-school course in formal gram mar, as it was conceived of a few years ago, is almost unknown. The world seems to proceed as well without these subjects as it did when they held prominent place, and we have to face the question whether it would not get along just as well if algebra and geometry followed them into educational oblivion. The medieval Compotus was once an essential feature in the education of a learned man, it was apparently intrenched in a position of secu rity, and yet, as I mention it to-day, half of this audience may be ignorant, and excusably so, of even the meaning of the word. Somebody at some time asked the question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.