The Stratification of the American Mathematical Community: The Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society, 1915–1925

Author(s):  
Karen Hunger Parshall
1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-92
Author(s):  
Robert F. Wheeler

For the mathematician interested in issues of learning and teaching, these are, ostensibly, the best of times. The American Mathematical Society has joined the Mathematical Association of America in making choice time slots available at national and regional meetings for discussions of educational issues. These sessions have been well attended, not only by young Ph.D.'s, but also by senior mathematicians, full professors with the protection of tenure, who have the potential to substantially modify the way in which college mathematics teaching is done.


1937 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
W. D. Reeve

Professor Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, honorary president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, passed away on May 21, 1937, at his home in Chicago in his seventy-sixth year. Professor Slaught's death removes from the scene of action one of the most devoted servants of the cause of mathematics in this country. For many years he was active not only in the affairs of the National Council, but also in those of the Mathematical Association of America, The American Mathematical Society, the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers and several local organizations. He was a leader in the best sense. He was interested not only in promulgating and encouraging research activities, but was also active in stimulating others to study and improve the teaching of mathematics in secondary schools. He was instrumental in founding the Mathematical Association of America in 1916, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1920. His death is a distinct loss to all the mathematical organizations that he served so long and so well.


1936 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 401-402
Author(s):  
H. S. Tiedeman

The twenty-first annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of America will be held at Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Thursday, December 31, 1936 and Friday, January 1, 1937, in conjunction with the meeting of the American Mathematical Society.


1941 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 297-304
Author(s):  
Wm. L. Hart

1. Introduction. A report of activities and recommendations was recently presented to Professor Marston Morse, Chairman of the War Preparedness Committee, by its Subcommittee on Education for Service. The following extracts differ from the complete report through the omission of certain recommendations which at the moment are not sufficiently matured to be appropriate for publication. All curricular recommendations are included in the following paragraphs.


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