(1) The Supervision of Arithmetic (2) Second-Year Mathematics for Secondary Schools (3) Elementary Dynamics of the Particle and Rigid Body

Abstract

(I) A CONSIDERABLE amount of elaborate investigation has gone to the making of “The Supervision of Arithmetic.” It might very well have been analysed and the results presented in a small pamphlet. It is not clear why the book has been imported into this country. It can be of no earthly interest or value to the English teacher to know in detail a mass of information such as “the distribution of cities according to per cent. time, exclusive of recesses and opening exercises, devoted to arithmetic.” The tables appear to be the kind of thing to which in American educational courses a diploma is awarded. If this be the case, it seems that pretentious theses for a masters degree may be compiled without any real thinking being done.

(1) The Supervision of Arithmetic.

By W. A. Jessup L. D. Coffman. Pp. vii + 225. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1916.) Price 5s. net.

(2) Second-Year Mathematics for Secondary Schools.

By Ernst R. Breslich. Second edition. Pp. xx + 348. (Chicago, III.: University of Chicago Press; Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916.) Price 4s. net.

(3) Elementary Dynamics of the Particle and Rigid Body.

By Prof. R. J. A. Barnard. Pp. vi + 374. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1916.) Price 6s.