The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-03-06

| More than fifty of the teachers of Greenlee county, with a number of patrons of the county's schools, met ion Saturday, February 2S, at the Mo renci high school building in the first convention of the recently organized lsociation. The sessions of this con vention were pronounced by all to have been very beneficial.
 | Mathematics, as before announced, was the principal theme of the days discussions, the aim of the teachers and patrons being to devote each meetings discussions to one special subject, and thereby accomplish greater results. Music, vocal and in strumental, entertained the visiting instructions. A solo was rendered by Mrs. Weller of Morenci. Misses Ray, Johnson and Plass sang songs in trio.
 The Morenci High. School Orches- tra, whic hwas organized among the pupils of the Morenci high school, was Iberally applauded for it's very creditable work. This or ganization consists of a number of instruments, and each player acquitS himself in a manner that shows the constant practice in concert:
 Miss Calkins began the days pro- | the teaching of arithmetic in the pri- mary grades. The speaker, as those who followed, spoke from experience in teaching the various grades assign ed in their discussions. Miss Gates followed with an address pertaining to the teaching of arithmetic in the fourth and fifth grades. The most pertinent phase of the discussions concerning mathematics were discuss I~,, Drof we'll and Goggin, these three speak CTS being assigned to address the audi ence upon the findings of the teach CTS in regard to the adaptabilfty of l the present text on mathematics. Each of the speakers was explicit in statements that the present text is not in harmony with the course of mathematics as outlined by the Ari- zena state board of education, the conclusion of all being that the text lis faulty in various respects, the principal omission. being however as above mentioned. The speakers illus trated their conclusions by pointing to certain discrepancies experienced by all teachers in their efforts to prop erly combine the text with the daily following of the outlined plan of the state board in mathematics, All three Instructors were in agreement that the text should De at an early QaUe Ichanged in favor of one more in re- Ilation with the obligatory courses of mathematics.
 Profs. George and Sellars spoke upon higher mathematics in it's rela- tion to the needs of the commercial offices of the country, they specifically mentioning in this respect that through their experience as teachers of applied mathematics in both com mercial and manual training branches that they had abundant evidence that the actual man of business often a lack of practical application of arith- metic upon the part of pupils who come from the school room where they have been instructed in mathe- matics by the ordinary methods. The usual experience of business men who take into their employ graduates of the high school is that the pro ducts of the schools are often not in line with labor and practical forms and applications of mathematics as applied in business offices, and thus placing the graduate at a disadvant- age with employees who have enjoyed training in actual business.
 The convention decided upon Met calf as the place of meeting of the next convention of the Association, and the first Saturday in April as the date. The success of the first meet ing is encouraging to those of the teachers who attended, and prepara- tions are now being made for very successful convention at Metcalf.