Essays On Mathematical Education

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Author(s): George St. Lawrence Carson
Year: 2008

Language: English
Pages: 145

Title: Essays on Mathematical Education......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
Introduction......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Some Principles of Mathematical Education......Page 7
Intuition......Page 21
The Useful and the Real......Page 39
Some Unrealized Possibilities of Mathematical Education......Page 53
The Teaching of Elementary Arithmetic......Page 69
The Educational Value of Geometry......Page 89
The Place of Deduction in Elementary Mechanics......Page 119
A Comparison of Geometry with Mechanics......Page 129