Some Forgotten Areas of Instruction in Mathematics

Abstract

In many areas of instructions it often happens that in our desire to cover the prescribed material, we assume that some of the fundamental skills of the area of instruction will be developed by themselves more or less automatically. The instructor evidently feels that if he succeeds in putting across the more difficult concepts and techniques that these fundamental skills, because they are a part of every problem, will be taken care of without any specific attention. It appears that such is the case in the teaching of elementary and secondary mathematics.