scholarly journals International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics

Nature ◽  
1932 ◽  
Vol 130 (3291) ◽  
pp. 803-803
Keyword(s):  
International Commission ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

An Enquiry into the Teaching of Mathematics

1956 ◽  
Vol 40 (333) ◽  
pp. 199-200
Keyword(s):  
General System ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
International Commission ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Work Done

The International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics, which is one of the Commissions set up by the International Mathematical Union, has been conducting an enquiry into the teaching of mathematics between the ages of 16 and 21. A full report has already been published on this aspect of teaching so far as Germany is concerned and a questionnaire was sent to all countries participating in the work of the commission. The British National Committee for Mathematics appointed Dr. E. A. Maxwell to represent Britain on the International Commission and a sub-committee consisting of Dr. Maxwell, Miss M. L. Cartwright, A. P. Rollett and G. L. Parsons to prepare the answers to the questionnaire. This sub-committee also received a good deal of help from the Department of Education of Cambridge University in connection with questions relating to the general system of education. The sub-committee confined their replies for the most part to work done in schools. With the replies were sent various relevant pamphlets published by the Ministry of Education, specimen timetables from various types of schools, a large number of examination papers and syllabuses and reports of the Mathematical Association. The questionnaire was framed for dealing with state systems of education similar to that in Germany and covered the whole educational system. We give only those parts of it relating to the technical aspects of the enquiry.

Notes and News

1911 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-130
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
International Commission ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
University Professor ◽  
Mathematics Professor ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

The New York Section of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in the Middle States and Maryland gave a dinner at the Hotel St. Denis, New York City, on the evening of January 6, 1911. The guests of the evening were the American Commissioners of the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics: Professor David Eugene Smith, Columbia University; Professor W. F. Osgood, Harvard University; Professor J. W. A. Young, Chicago University.

New Books

1929 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-126
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
International Commission ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Teacher Attention ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

In the preceding number of the, Mathematics Teacher attention was called to one of the several series of small handbooks for teachers and students now being published in Germany. The two books mentioned above are from another and no less important series published by the well-known firm of Teubner, in Leipzig. This series consists of supplementary teaching material issued by Dr. Lietzmann of the Oberrealschule at Göttingen, one of the most active of the German contributors to the success of the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics, and the author of various important reports and works on the improvement of secondary mathematics in his country.

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