Annual – 1970 – Active Learning in Mathematics
Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association
44 – 53
Arithmetic Accuracy Activities
Gloria Cathcart
Skill in handling numbers is an important part of the arithmetic program in the elementary school; and it seems that drill is still necessary, but drill need not be boring and can be incorporated into a laboratory or activity program. This point is made by Edith Biggs, who has been very influential in the development of the activity approach to the teaching of mathematics.