Information as to the actual nritlmetb cal calculations and problems used in business is being sought by the Syllabus Revision Committee set np by the Education Department. To this end, Mr C. \V. Garrard, senior inspootor of schools at Auckland, is circularising managers of business and industrial firms in the belief that they can assist by giving valuable information in determining the amount nnd kind of arithmetic that should be taught in schools. Business men are being requested to enter on a form, the arithmetical calculations and problems used in their business. The incorporation of such, problems in tho school syllabus, it isexplained, can then bo considered by tho department, so that pupils can bo instructed in the actual work they,- will bo required to do after leaving school* should they enter business.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19104, 13 September 1927, Page 9
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