New Objectives For Ninth Grade Mathematics: An Exposition And Appraisal
The general nature of the problem under analysis in this study is indicated in the fol lowing statements: i. Mathematics as a field of study has im portant contributions to make toward the total of skills, habits, attitudes and generalizations everyone should have. Especially is this true throughout the junior high school years, where the fundamental skills and concepts relating to computation and measurement are added to and expanded. 2. Tradition has influenced in undue de gree the mathematics of the ninth grade. It has stood in the way of establishing objectives based on the needs of all pupils. 3. "Social and economic change, always ahead of the school, has outdistanced mathe matics instruction to such an extent that, apparently, as the need for a universal knowledge of mathematical concepts becomes greater, the smaller is the percentage of pupils studying mathematics. Vitalization of objec tives is of first importance, in order to estab lish mathematics in the place it should have in modern life. The obligation of ninth-grade mathematics is so to vitalize instruction that