Goals for arithmetic teaching
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What is good teaching of arithmetic? Certainly the basic characteristics of good arithmetic teaching are those of good teaching in any subject. As an overall generalization, we can say that good teaching is that teaching which develops an able and independent learner. After enjoying the better part of a month in observing fifty different teachers of arithmetic in elementary schools, I found certain characteristics present in the teaching which the building principals and I agreed were “good.”