Show normal institute august ath AFTERNOON prof lewis took up the subject of arithmetic at the greatest common divisor and treated this in a clear manner advocating the use of only one in method thod 1 in obtaining it as a number of methods rather tend to i confuse least common m multiple was explained in a similar manner common fractions their different kinds and the manner of reduction reductions addition multiplication and land division aa as practised practiced by the lecturer in his hia school werm were stated and illustrated misses miller hollingsworth and culmer sang very sweetly was concluded A number of the members acting as a class he showed clearly to the institute his method 0 of f teaching and its advantages and ended by eulogizing the study and showing the importance of knowledge ow of this branch in every walk in life prof maeser on natural science concluded his hia lectures to the tute business calling him to provo much to the regret of all he stated in a clear manner the method d of introducing enough science in schools to inake make the pupils observe and understand the phenomena of nature as wind rain hall hail thunder lightning etc he treated d the subject in his usual able and interesting style A vote of thanks was given to prof maeser and the meeting adjourned jour ned FORENOON aug 10 opening exercises and roll call prof monch continued on the theory and practice of teaching illustrating by example one of his methods of calisthenics he gave an an analysis alyis alsis on the board of the drill and promised to show other methods before the end of his series A recitation the curfew must not ring tonight to night was very effectively rendered by miss jessie penrose pen rose robe reading beading by mr hardy was again taken up the word woid reading heading method with the aid of phonetics and object lessons receiving particular attention many nice points on teaching primary reading were introduced trod mr parsons sang a comic solag very humorously i miss ida lone zone cook stated the d difficulty if 0 of teaching object lessons and the necea necessity sity of exercising much judgment she bhe then proceeded to give a method employed by her for instruction in lessons on animals the subject being divided into series and steps corresponding to the pupils development the forenoon session adjourned the following additional members were in attendance mary A dwyer rosabelle hartwell lena hardy ruth lruth reese beese salt lake county mary parrish Parr iab d S J parrish davis county |