Excerpt from The Teaching of Elementary Mathematics
It is evident that the problem of preparing a work upon the teaching of elementary mathematics may be attacked from any one of various standpoints. A writer may confine himself to model lessons, for example; or to the explanation of the most difficult portions of the subject matter; or to the psychology of the subject; or to the comparison of historic methods; or to the exploiting of some hobby which he has ridden with success; or to those devices which occupy so much time in the ordinary training of teachers. He may say, and with truth, that elementary mathematics now includes trigonometry, analytic geometry, and the calculus; and that therefore a work with this title should cover the ground of Dauge's "Methodologie," or of Laisant's masterly work, "La Mathematique." He may proceed dogmatically, and may lay down hard and fast rules for teaching, excusing this destruction of the teacher's independence by the thought that the end justifies the means. But with a limited amount of space at his disposal, whatever point of attack he selects he must leave the others more or less untouched; he cannot condense an encyclopedia of the subject in three hundred pages.
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