The Report of the Mathematics CommissionThe Place of Mathematics in Secondary Education. The Final Report of the Joint Commission of the Mathematical Association of America and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

1941 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-231
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Corey
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Joint Commission ◽  
Final Report ◽  
National Council ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
The Joint Commission

News Notes

1937 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 298
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
General Education ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Joint Commission ◽  
Partial Report ◽  
National Council ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
The Joint Commission

The Joint Commission on the Place of Mathematics in the Secondary Schools plans to issue a preliminary partial report early in 1938. Composed of members of both the Mathematical Association of America and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the Commission bas been considering its problems since 1935. A grant from the General Education Board received in January, 1937, made possible a series of meetings which have led to the forth-coming preliminary report.

Models in Solid Geometry

1942 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 05-07
Author(s):  
Miles C. Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Joint Commission ◽  
National Committee ◽  
National Council ◽  
Spatial Relationships ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Spatial Imagination ◽  
The Joint Commission

The development of the pupil's ability to visualize spatial relationships has for a long time been recognized as one of the problems confronting the teacher of Solid Geometry. In 1923, the National Committee on Mathematics Requirements wrote: “The aim of the work in Solid Geometry should be to exercise further the spatial imagination of the student and to give him both a knowledge of the fundamental relationships and the power to work with tbem.”1 In 1940, the Joint Commission of the Mathematical Association of America and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics reported: “Much attention should be given to the visualization of spatial figmes and relations, to the representation of three dimensional figures on paper.…”2

Action For Mental Health: Final Report of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health.

1962 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Edmund Volkart ◽  
Kenneth E. Appel ◽  
Leo H. Bartemeier
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Joint Commission ◽  
Final Report ◽  
The Joint Commission

Control of Fundamental Mathematical Skills and Concepts by High School Students

1946 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 365-371
Author(s):  
Merle M, Ohlsen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Dual Problem ◽  
Joint Commission ◽  
Mathematical Achievement ◽  
Final Report ◽  
National Council ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematical Skills ◽  
Grade Levels

The purpose of this study was to answer the following questions concerning the mathematical achievement of the students in grades ten, eleven, and twelve in forty-three selected Iowa high schools: (1) What degree of mastery of the mathematical skills and concepts described as essential for the ordinary citizen in the Final Report of the Joint Commission of The Mathematics Association of America and The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics1 is attained by high school students? This question involved the dual problem of determining the degree of mastery for each defined concept and skill as well as the degree of mastery of the composite of these concepts and skills. (2) What common errors do students make in applying these concepts and skills? (3) Are there significant differences between grade levels in the degree of mastery of this basic mathematics?

Looking at Solid Geometry Through Perspective

1941 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
Ethel Spearman
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Joint Commission ◽  
Pictorial Representation ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
The Joint Commission

“Much attention should be given to the visualization of spatial figures and relations, to the representation of three-dimensional figures on paper, and to the solution of problems in mensuration,” says the Joint Commission among its suggestions on solid geometry in its report on “The Place of Mathematics in Secondary Education.”* These ideas are incorporated in the notion of perspective. Perspective may be regarded as a practical means for securing a rigorous reciprocal metrical relationship between the shapes of objects as definitely located in space and their pictorial representation. It may be regarded as the rationalization of sight. This Commission further points out that “the problems in mensuration offer opportunity for correlation of solid geometry with arithmetic, algebra, and trigonometry. Part of the importance of the geometry of the sphere comes from the perspective that it makes possible.”

Presenting the Report of the Joint Commission to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

1940 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 147-149
Author(s):  
E. R. Breslich
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Joint Commission ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Council ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Lasting Impression ◽  
Mathematical Curriculum ◽  
The Joint Commission

The Development of the mathematical curriculum of the secondary schools is divided into two periods, one from 1893 to 1923 and the other from 1923 to 1940. The first period begins with the report of the famous Committee of Ten on Secondary Studies, the second with the report of the equally famous Committee on Mathematical Requirements. Each report has made a lasting impression on the mathematical curriculum. The presentation of the report of the Joint Commission marks the beginning of a third period in the advancement of the course of secondary school mathematics. Its influence will soon be seen in the forthcorrung textbooks and in the newer courses of study.

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