Shall We Defer the Teaching of Algebra to the Tenth Year?*

1940 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 325-327
Author(s):  
Harriet A. Welch
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Principals ◽  
School Principals ◽  
State Department ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Plane Geometry ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Monthly Bulletin ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
State Department Of Education

In the April number of the monthly bulletin published by the California State Department of Education, there appeared the following statement: “Replies from 324 public high school principals establish that more than half of these institutions have moved algebra from the ninth to the tenth grade. Plane geometry is an eleventh year subject in more than a third of these schools; in some, it is even postponed to the twelfth year.”

Redirection or Return to Direction in Mathematics

1945 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 306-308
Author(s):  
Lehman Hoefler
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
State Department ◽  
The State ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
High School Teaching ◽  
State Department Of Education

For the past eight years the Bureau of Youth Services of the Connecticut State Department of Education, which is charged among other responsibilities with the general supervision of instruction in the secondary schools in Connecticut, has been especially and deeply concerned about the outcomes of high school teaching in the state.

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