A brief course in the teaching process

by George D. Strayer

3. From the Standpoint of Interest in the Subject for its Own Sake.

References: Smith, Teaching of Elementary Mathematics, p. 19. Young, pp. 23-242.

IV. The Nature of the Problem

1. The Great Change in Recent Years brought about by Two Causes.

a. The study of social needs.

b. The study of child psychology.

2. The Peculiar Needs of America. The Bearing of these Needs upon the Teaching of Arithmetic.

3. Child Psychology and the Problems still Awaiting Solution.

References: Smith, Teaching of Elementary Mathematics, p. 21. Young, pp. 97-103, 210-218. Saxelby, Practical Mathematics, and similar works.

V. The Arrangement of Material