. The building trades . s who become industrialworkers. The average carpenter or bricklayer willhave few occasions to use even a general knowledgeof stocks and bonds, or customs and fact some of the work now given in the secondhalf of the seventh and the first half of the eighthgrade may well be omitted in the industrial courseand the time thus gained be devoted to more ad-vanced work in mensuration and geometry. Applied mathematics is the backbone of industrialtraining. Building employers complain less aboutignorance of arithmetic on the part of their appren-tices than of inabi
. The building trades . s who become industrialworkers. The average carpenter or bricklayer willhave few occasions to use even a general knowledgeof stocks and bonds, or customs and fact some of the work now given in the secondhalf of the seventh and the first half of the eighthgrade may well be omitted in the industrial courseand the time thus gained be devoted to more ad-vanced work in mensuration and geometry. Applied mathematics is the backbone of industrialtraining. Building employers complain less aboutignorance of arithmetic on the part of their appren-tices than of inability to apply arithmetic. What isneeded in the school is more practice in the applica-tion of mathematical principles to real is in developing the pupils ability to use in a defi-nite and concrete way their knowledge of mathe-matics that the shop classes yield their greatesteducational returns. Shop WorkThe present course of study requires of all the boysone hour a week of manual training in woodwork, and 74. those who wish may elect two and one-half hoursadditional work in this subject. It is closely relatedto but one of the building trades—cabinet-making—although it also has some resemblance to certaintypes of carpentry. It bears no direct relation toplumbing, electrical wiring, sheet metal work, brick-laying, stone setting, painting, or any of the otherbuilding trades. It gives some familiarity with theprinciples involved in the simpler shaping and as-sembling operations, and practice with a few handtools. A general industrial course will require a sufficientvariety of shop equipment to give the pupils anacquaintance with the main processes in a few of thelarger trades. The chief use of shop work, however,will be as a medium for making more effective theinstruction in mathematics and mechanical drawing. DrawingDrawing is next in importance to kind of building work begins with a drawing,and throughout every process of construction draw-ings c
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