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Show w PRACTICAL MATHEMATICS Will it be possible to eliminate two years of mathematics as now taught in the elementary and junior high schools of the State? C. D. Steiner, professor of agricultural agricul-tural education in the University of Utah, thinks so; and he means to demonstrate it in a practical way. To this end he is in correspondence with twelve county superintendents, who are mailing him each month a group of typical problems of the farmer and the housewife. When the plan gets fully under way he will receive not fewer than 1200 problems prob-lems monthly. An examination of these will reveal, believes Prof. Steiner, the kind and amount of mathematics required to meet the particular needs of the farmer and the farmer's-wife. He is confident that two years of wasted effort in this particular branch of the "three Rs" may as well be cut out. |