The Organization of a Course in General Mathematics for the Seventh Grade

Abstract

During the session 1932–33 four of the seventh grade mathematics teachers in Albemarle County, Virginia, worked with the writer in organizing a general mathematics course for the seventh grade. The study was made possible through the cooperative arrangement existing between these schools and the department of education of the University of Virginia. Three projects were undertaken: First, a systematic and comprehensive analysis was made of the objectives of seventh grade mathematics as controls of content. Second, a catalog of seventh grade pupils' interests was compiled to serve as a point of departure in introducing the units of work to the pupils. Third, the difficulties of seventh grade pupils in common and decimal fractions were ascertained as a basis for remedial work. In its final form, the course contained ten units of work.