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Progress toward maturity.

Judd, Charles Hubbard

Pages: 1 –12

The pupil who is ready to enter high school has physical and mental characteristics which are very different from those which he exhibited when he entered the first grade. This chapter examines the following topics: Helplessness and plasticity in infancy; Immaturity of digestive processes;...

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Social maturity.

Judd, Charles Hubbard

Pages: 13 –25

The preceding chapter outlined the facts of physical development. The maturity of the child who is entering high school is, however, more than physical maturity. Such a child has achieved certain adjustments which make it possible for him to live comfortably and successfully with the people about...

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Intellectual maturity.

Judd, Charles Hubbard

Pages: 26 –51

As was pointed out in the previous chapters, the elementary school contributes to the social development of the child and watches over and, in some degree, contributes to the physical development which goes on during childhood; its most commonly recognized purpose, however, is to contribute to...

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Maturity in behavior and attitudes.

Judd, Charles Hubbard

Pages: 52 –64

Through its investigations, psychology has learned to lay great emphasis on behavior. What an animal, or human being does is found to be indicative of the internal organization of the individual's nervous system. The immature individual, whose nervous system is not mapped out in definite paths,...

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Secondary education as distinct from elementary education.

Judd, Charles Hubbard

Pages: 65 –70

On leaving the elementary school, the pupil exhibits the, various types of maturity which have been described in the foregoing chapters. (As has been pointed out, it is the duty of the high school to provide for the cultivation of new and higher forms of maturity. This chapter examines the...

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The general psychology of the mathematical sciences.

Judd, Charles Hubbard

Pages: 71 –99

Geometry, as the science of space, deals with lines and forms which are perfectly familiar in the experience of everyone. There is no human being who does not have, even in early childhood, some knowledge of distance and extension. The pupil who has passed through the elementary school has seen...

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Psychological problems encountered in teaching mathematics.

Judd, Charles Hubbard

Pages: 100 –132

The effort to understand what is going on in the minds of pupils when they attempt to master the subjects which they study is by no means new. Such attention to the mental processes of pupils did not originate with educational psychology. Every textbook prepared by an experienced teacher embodies...

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Pupil difficulties in mathematics.

Judd, Charles Hubbard

Pages: 133 –154

One of the most productive methods of analyzing the mental processes of pupils is to study the difficulties which they encounter. Many teachers do not realize the value of an analysis of pupils' errors. They think of a mistake as a purely negative fact; when a mistake occurs, they regard it as...

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The content and methods of educational psychology.

Judd, Charles Hubbard

Pages: 155 –168

Examples have been given in the foregoing chapters of methods which the student of psychology may adopt in order to arrive at an understanding of the mental processes of high-school pupils. In this chapter an attempt will be made to formulate in general terms the methods which have thus been...

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Scientific studies of language.

Judd, Charles Hubbard

Pages: 169 –199

From the beginning of their history, schools have given, a great deal of attention to instruction in language. We find that the early secondary schools of Europe were very largely concerned with the teaching of Latin. At the time these schools were first organized Latin was the medium of...

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