Forty-seventh annual meeting of the Maryland State Teachers' Association . goesfurther and associates the work with the common every-day problemsof business life. Thus we see that our present-day life demands of our schools thatwe give our pupils such training as will fit them not for some particularposition in the social and business life of the county—we cant do thatwithout harm to the individual and the school as a whole, but enablethem to easily adapt themselves to any ordinary situation in which theyare placed. In teaching primary arithmetic our aim is to teach the fundamentalprocess. How
Forty-seventh annual meeting of the Maryland State Teachers' Association . goesfurther and associates the work with the common every-day problemsof business life. Thus we see that our present-day life demands of our schools thatwe give our pupils such training as will fit them not for some particularposition in the social and business life of the county—we cant do thatwithout harm to the individual and the school as a whole, but enablethem to easily adapt themselves to any ordinary situation in which theyare placed. In teaching primary arithmetic our aim is to teach the fundamentalprocess. How we teach them and the selection of subject matter is leftalmost entirely to the judgment of the teacher. Experience has taughtus that text-books, however good they may be, do not furnish materialadequate to the needs of the pupils. Then, while some of the more mod-ern texts are a vast improvement on the ones used a few years ago, thematerial is not just that which would prove most successful in yourparticular classroom. Indeed, in some cases, it has been proven that. MISS EDITH M. HILL,Member Executive Committee, Washington County. MARYLAND STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION 157 successful work can be done without the use of text. But even when atext is used, it is necessary to supplement it with other material, andfor this material we look first of all to the home life and play of thechild, then as his capabilities and interests increase we look to hissurroundings. This is the time when we can make use of such materialas the industries and occupations of our State. No community is without at least a few industries and occupationsin which the children are naturally interested. Maybe father tongs oys-ters, or mother works in the canning factory. Such facts furnish a wealthof material for problems which will be of value, not only in so far asthe mathematical processes are concerned, but they will give also a deeperknowledge of the things which are around us. The lack of such knowl-edg
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