History of the English People

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...studied exhaustively, as ratio; some are considered but slightly, as compound quantities; some are ignored, as averages and exchange. Problems fresh in material and phraseology are chosen for the purpose of presenting new aspects of old subjects, and of placing known principles in different perspective. Many of these review problems are formulated in the classroom and are intended to embody the quantitative side of the work and the play of the world; they are made as much as possible the vehicle of useful information regarding science, business, and public works. The growth of arithmetic as a subject of school instruction is traced historically, and some knowledge of the great teachers of arithmetic, their methods and their influence, is given. Five hours per week for one term. Arithmetic II: Method As a requirement for those students who do not take Arithmetic I, and as an elective for all students, a short course in Special Methods in Arithmetic is provided. The course aims to give, by lectures, discussions, and reports on work done in the Training School, the pedagogy of the subject and to indicate certain fresh and successful ways of presenting the different units of instruction. The psychological principles upon which all rational methods must be based are formulated, and the students are encouraged to test by these the empiricism of the text-books which they may be called upon to use. Two hours per week, spring term. MUSIC The work in music done in the Training School and that done in the Normal course are so closely identified that constant reference to the procedure in the Training School is necessary for an understanding of the spirit and method of the instruction given to the students. In a belief that music, to be an element of real value in the ...