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Student Needs and Subject Requirements — Can One be Met Without Sacrificing the Other?

Monograph No. 2: September 1974

MATHEMATICS TEACHING – The State of the Art

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

57 – 68

Student Needs and Subject Requirements — Can One be Met Without Sacrificing the Other?

WALLACE S. MANNING

When I accepted the invitation to speak at this session of your conference, I deliberated on what I could discuss with you that would be worth your time, because I feel a deep sense of responsibility for providing a few ideas which will repay you for your attendance at this meeting. I thought about an open letter from Dan Valentine, a columnist for a Salt Lake City newspaper, concerning his son starting school.