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The Stroud System of Teaching Dynamics *

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

James B. Henderson
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Very few teachers ever have the chance of noting the advantage or disadvantage of a change, introduced into their methods of teaching, and of profiting by the same. I desire now to put on record the results of such a change and the method by which they were attained.

The number of systems of teaching dynamics is great, and still the results are deplorable as judged by the knowledge possessed by the average engineer some years after he leaves college. Teachers are either biassed in favour of the Gaussian system or the Perry system, or some other system of their own, and are loath to change because they can train their students to solve the necessary problems, and if a mistake is made by omitting g or some other quantity it is merely a mistake and costs nothing. It is not so with the poor student, however, when he is launched on the world without his teacher to help him.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 12 , Issue 170 , May 1924 , pp. 99 - 105
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1924

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*

Contribution to a Joint Discussion of Sections G and L of the British Association at Liverpool, September 18 1923.

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* Contribution to a Joint Discussion of Sections G and L of the British Association at Liverpool, September 18 1923.