Abstract
A. P. Fugill: The main purpose of this session is to correlate more closely the teaching of mathematics in the high school with the use of mathematics in everyday living. It should be recognized at the start that the high schools can and should teach only the fundamentals of mathematics. It is the function of industry to develop special techniques of use and facility in handling mathematics. The usual high school subjects, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, are useful in varying degrees in the practice of engineering, or for that matter in any industrial and commercial activity. It would be wasteful to bring every student up to the degree of proficiency required in a few specialized fields. The effort in high school teaching, therefore, should be to use mathematics as a means of developing logical reasoning and judgment, rather than as an exercise in memory.
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