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circle. He cannot change this, nor ignore it; 

 it is a law, a truth. He learns to respect law, 

 to reason in accordance with it not only in 

 the class-room but outside of it. This cultural 

 value comes from arithmetic only in the degree 

 the student is allowed to experiment and in- 

 vestigate and discover for himself the arith- 

 metical truths through his own solutions and 

 methods. 



The schools are coming to allow more free- 

 dom in this direction than they formerly did. 

 Teachers are letting students experiment with 

 problems, are allowing and encouraging indi- 

 vidual research for material and method of 

 solution even in the early grades. Students 

 are consulting persons in the business world 

 and in the mechanical and technical industries 

 and bringing back into class such information 

 as they have gained outside by observation 

 and inquiry. The teachers urge students to 

 investigate as far as they can personally, and 

 then consult with persons who have special 

 and expert knowledge upon the arithmetical 

 situation under consideration in the class- 

 room. This tends, to socialize arithmetic by 

 bringing together persons interested in the 

 same subject. It gives the student respect for 

 parent, neighbor or friend who knows expertly 

 the thing which he is studying, and in turn 

 the outside people come to understand and 

 respect the school. 



Steps in the Study of 

 Arithmetic 



To outline a course of study which may be 

 applied to the work in all schools is a difficult 

 task. There has never been uniformity in 

 grading, as parents realize who move with 

 their children from town to town. The child 

 in fifth grade in a village may be doing prac- 

 tically the same work as the city child in 

 fourth grade. The course of study as outlined 

 by school authorities in one state or province 

 is not likely to be in accord with courses pre- 

 scribed in other sections. For the United 

 States the Bureau of Education at Washington 

 was employed in 1916 on the task of prepar- 

 ing a uniform course of study to recommend 

 for acceptance by all the states. No date was 

 announced for its publication. 



Accept mi: the conclusions of skilled educa- 



he following may be considered a f nrly 



to survey of the work in arithmetic, 



grade by grade, for the first eight grades. 



Beyond the latter year, usually, no arithmetic 



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