A critical study of the teaching of mathematicsin the schools of Montreal and the surrounding district.

The title of this thesis was chosen within a few weeks of the student's arrival in Canada. As a result of lack of definite information conoerning educational matters in the Province of Quebec, at that time he was unable to judge whether less vague delimitation of the topic was desirable. After observation of the teaching of mathematics ranging from the incidental number work of the Kindergarten to the mathematical studies of Grade XI in several elementary and high schools both in and near Montreal, concomitant with a rapid survey of some of the material that has been written during the last quarter of a century on the pedagogy of mathematical subjects at all stages and in practically every country, he decided to restrict the subject of the thesis more particularly to the study of the teaching of the higher mathematical branches, geometry, algebra and trigonometry for the most part, in the Protestant high schools of the district, though incidental reference will necessarily be made to the teaching of arithmetic in both elementary and high schools [...