CHAPTER V
THE PRINCIPLES OF MATHEMATICS IN RELATION TO ELEMENTARY TEACHING
(International Congress of Mathematicians, Cambridge, August, 1912)
We are concerned not with the advanced teaching of a few specialist mathematical students, but with the mathematical education of the majority of boys in our secondary schools. Again these boys must be divided into two sections: one section consists of those who desire to restrict their mathematical education; the other section is made up of those who will require some mathematical training for their subsequent professional careers, either in the form of definite mathematical results or in the form of mathematically trained minds.
I shall call the latter of these two sections the mathematical section, and the former the non-mathematical section. But I must repeat that by the mathematical section is meant that large number of boys who desire to learn more than the minimum amount of mathematics. Furthermore, most of my remarks about these sections of boys
