The Teaching of Mathematics ^{1 1}

Abstract

THESE two reports on mathematical teaching cover very different ground, and are treated from very different points of view. The report of the London County Council refers particularly to elementary schools, though in many places it deals with general questions of mathematical teaching that apply to schools of all types. The New South Wales report refers entirely to the work of secondary schools. Again, the L.C.C. report is drawn up by a body consisting mainly of teachers in the closest touch with the child, and, throughout their report, they consider the ostate of development of the child's mind and the wide differences there must be between the children in the future. In marked contrast to this, the N.S.W. report does not seem to be based on an intimate knowledge of the minds of average pupils, but seems to aim only at the production of future mathematicians.