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Page 23 - The volumes of similar solids are to each other as the cubes of their like dimensions.
Page 147 - VIII on the course of study. b) If the fault in an undifferentiated teaching emphasis is that the teacher does not know which are the difficult operations (and many teachers have written the present writers after giving standardized tests that it was the first time in their lives that they had ever known specifically which are the most difficult operations), the suggestion as to the remedy is simple and direct. The use of standardized tests can be made to lead to a detailed and helpful classification...
Page 131 - How many pencils can you buy for 50 cents at the rate of 2 for 5 cents? 5 The uniforms for a baseball nine cost $2.50 each. The shoes cost $2 a pair. What was the total cost of uniforms and shoes for the nine?
Page 79 - Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction.
Page 132 - A freight train left Albany for New York at 6 o'clock. An express left on the same track at 8 o'clock. It went at the rate of 40 miles an hour. At what time of day will it overtake the freight train if the freight train stops after it has gone 56 miles?
Page 131 - ... 1. If you buy 2 tablets at 7 cents each and a book for 65 cents, how much change should you receive from a two-dollar bill?
Page 124 - Write the answers on the paper directly underneath the examples. You are not expected to be able to do them all: You will be marked for both speed and accuracy, but it is more important to have your answers right than to try a great many examples.
Page 43 - The work should, moreover, be carefully planned so as to bring out geometric relations and logical connections. Before the end of this intuitive work the pupil should have definitely begun to make inferences and to draw valid conclusions from the relations discovered.
Page 44 - In regard to demonstrative geometry some teachers have objected to the introduction of such work below the tenth grade on the ground that with such immature pupils as are found in the ninth grade nothing worth while could be accomplished in the limited time available. These teachers may be right with regard to conditions prevailing or likely to prevail in the majority of schools in the immediate future. The committee has therefore in a later section of this chapter (Sec.
Page 11 - ... to start each pupil on the career which, as a result of the exploratory courses, he, his parents, and the school are convinced is most likely to be of profit to him and to society.