The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-17

misei able for mischievous boys. but forty
i've desks win not accommodate sixty fu-
pills. nor is il wise TO crowd seventy or
more into 4 room 24x2s. There are today.
seven rooms IN different parts of the city.
in each OF which there are over sixty pu-
pills, and there are thirty-four rooms with
an enrolment or forty-five or more AZ =
8 physical impossibility 10 seat additional
pupils in those rooms, but nevertheless
there are those who ask that their chill
dren be transferred from pleasant. COM
Portable room OF but Snirty-five or forty
pupils to the intentionally crowded ones,
and become abusive when denied the re-
quest.
THE principals and teachers are doing
their utmost to ecualize the enroliment
among the different schools, but much re-
mains TO be done. The Denny school Is
crowded likewise the South, and hence
boundaries may have 10 be changed and
a number OF pupils transferred The
Green Lake school Is increasing in attend
ance, and it will be necessary TO rent
room and transfer teacher from some
less crowded building. Two rooms have
been rented for the overflow" from the
Cascade and one for the Rainier.
"AIl will be provided for as rapidly a.
possible.
Change in Arithmetic Course.
at will be well for teachers and patrons
in arithmetic, below the high school
grades has been changed completely, and
that this change affects particularly the
first four years One of the most strih-
ing features % the new arithmetic is that
where We used 10 study merely numbers
the pupil is now taught along with num-
bers the relations OF magnitudes. The new
arithmetic. Part l. for teachers, and the
elementary arithmetic by w. W. Speer.
together with the Psychology OF Number
by Mcclellan and Dewey. are TO be used
as manuals and considered as part OF the
course of study in arithmetic. No teach
er can hope 10 succeed without a thorough
knowledge and comprehension of the un-
DERIVING principles OF the methods now in
PRODUCED. We may term the method the
changeable unit method and bear in mind
that comparisons, measurements, rela-
tons, ratios. fractions are the sum and
substance, the alpha and the omega of the
whole. subject. All the forms. aids and
devices supplied, whether tablets. sticks,
cylinders. blocks or right-aRgled triangular
prisms were made to order, and cut in
sizes to clearly develop and conform TO
that method. Forms not found in the
large boxes are TO be taken from the
Prang sets. A complete mastery and
thorough understanding OF the manuals,
including the preface and introduction, ID
an absolute necessity.
or in a home which affords opportunity
for fit and free activity. for daily contact
with sympathetic and cultured minds. will
have acquired a store OF impressions, a
power to observe and express. and a de-
gree Of self-control which may enable him
TO do IN weeks what cannot be done in
months by one whose faculties have never
been awakened, whose curiosity has been
checked before ii blossomed into effort"
Supt. Barnard has secured an abundant
supply of material for illustrating the
work required by the new arithmetic and
the young pupils will undoubtedly take
hold OF ii with great interest, as II ia
largely in the nature Of object lessons
Mr.. Barnard mentioned last night, with
a laugh. good example of the prevalence
of Klondicitis In the city. In enumerat-
ing the subjects of the new arithmetic in
a circular which he has issued to the
teachers, he had occasion 10 use the
phrase edges and lines The Intelligent
compositor. whose mind was evidently
running toward Eldorado and Bonanza.
set up the words hedges and mines" and
the whole edition OF the circular had to
be corrected with pen and ink.