Haggeety : 



Study in Arithmetic 



489 



B. Time Devoted to Arithmetic 



How much time is it profitable to spend on arithmetic? It 

 did not seem safe to trust here to estimates of the total amount of 

 time spent by each grade, so a detailed questionnaire was used as 

 follows : 



TIME DEVOTED TO ARITHMETIC 



City Reporting 



Report here both the time devoted to study and the time devoted to 

 recitation. Give data in terms of minutes per week. In computing results 

 a school year of 36 weeks wUl be assumed. If your school year varies 

 from this, indicate that fact. Give data for each class separately, as 

 follows : 



Eighth Grade 



First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth 

 Year. Year. Year. Year. Year. Year. Year. Year. 



{Study 

 Recitation 

 Total 



Seventh Grade 



First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh 

 Year. Year. Year. Year. Year. Year. Year. 



r study 



Minutes I Recitation 



per Week | ^^^^ 



Sixth Grade 



First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth 

 Year. Year. Year. Year. Year. Year. 



r study 



Minutes I R.^i^^tion 



per Week | ^^^^^ _ 



Fifth Grade 



First Second Third Fourth Fifth 

 Year. Year. Year. Year. Year. 



r study 



Minutes I j^^^i^ation 



per Week | ^^^^^ 



As in the former case, all of the cities returned the question- 

 naire. Inasmuch as the superintendents reporting* have, for the 

 most part, been in intimate touch with their school systems for a 

 considerable length of time, the data derived from this question- 

 naire are unusually dependable, and we have assumed them to be 

 correct. Table XLY represents the results of the questionnaire by 

 city and grade. 



