DECIMALS AT SCHOOLS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31198, 24 October 1966, Page 7

DECIMALS AT SCHOOLS

Teachers’ Guide Distributed

Supplies of the handbook “Teachers’ Guide to the Introduction of Decimal Currency to New Zealand Schools” are being distributed for use byteachers of Primer 4 to Form 111 classes in Canterbury and Westland. Mr P. M. Pinder, Director of Primary Education, says in the preface to the handbook: “This booklet has been planned to help teachers introduce the study of decimal currency into New Zealand schools. It is designed to supplement and to be used in conjunction with the department’s current arithmetic texts and handbooks. It is a step on the way to a new syllabus and the replacement of the present arithmetic texts and handbooks of suggestions.”

Mr Pinder says that the revised syllabus and new permanent text books incorporating work on decimal currencyneeded after the period of transition and on all parts of the revised syllabus will be issued to Standards 1 and 2 in 1967, and to Standards 3 and ;4 in 1968. Three transitional ' booklets for use by infants to 'Standard 2, Standards 3 and ;4. and Forms I and II respectively are to be issued later I this year for use from the beI ginning of 1967 to the end of 'the transition period.