London Conference of Science Teachers

Abstract

THE fifth annual conference of science teachers arranged by Dr. Kimmins in connection with the Technical Education Board of the London County Council was held at the Southwestern Polytechnic, Chelsea, on January 9 and 10. There was a larger attendance than in any previous year, between four and five hundred teachers and others accepting invitations to be present. Adopting the admirable practice of former meetings of selecting for consideration a subject which during the preceding year has been specially receiving attention in the educational world, arrangements were made to give the whole ol the first twp sessions to a discussion on the teaching of elementary mathematics, more especially the instruction in elementary geometry, and the interest manifested in the subject fully justified the choice. The third meeting was devoted to the teaching of botany in schools and colleges, and the last to methods of illustrating the instruction in chemistry by lecture experiments.