Abstract
Modern educational theory stresses the importance of letting a child develop at his own rate. This theory too often conflicts with practice in regular school with its passing dates, deadlines, and standardized testing. Summer has been looked on as a kind of salvation time for youngsters—a time when they can, in truth, do what they please. But doing what they please in this complex world usually requires some organization that can best be provided by thoughtful adults. Based on such reasoning, the Mott Summer Program has been developed in Flint. Schools are open six weeks of the summer and staffed with teachers who are specialists in recreation, a variety of crafts and skills and, more recently, the subject areas sometimes considered less fun—science, arithmetic, language, and reading. This paper will describe the first summer of one of the newest of these programs—a program in arithmetic for upper elementary children.
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