On the Teaching of Mathematics. Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association, 1927

1927 ◽  
Vol 13 (187) ◽  
pp. 296
Author(s):  
M. J. M. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

The Soddy spheres of a 4-ball tetrahedron: Part 1

2008 ◽  
Vol 92 (524) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Fox ◽  
Adrian Oldknow ◽  
John Rigby ◽  
Christopher Zeeman
Keyword(s):  
Software Package ◽  
Special Class ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Computer Software ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
Computer Software Package

New discoveries about the Soddy circles of a triangle were published in the Gazette [1] in 1995; they are summarised below. Extensions of wellknown results in the geometry of the triangle to that of the tetrahedron were presented by Zeeman in his 2004 Presidential Address at the Mathematical Association Conference in York [2]. Using the computer software package Cabri 3D, we have discovered new results which extend the Soddy circles of a triangle to Soddy spheres of a special class of tetrahedra. This article is the first of two which present our discoveries, as well as relevant aspects of the established geometry of tetrahedra, together with their proofs.

Reviews: Words to Solve by

1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-75
Author(s):  
John G. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Personal Essay ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
Collegiate Mathematics ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Teaching Problem ◽  
Research In Mathematics Education

Unlike most books reviewed in the journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Problem Solving in the Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC) does not report research. Instead, it seems designed to (a) recommend that problem solving be consistently included in collegiate mathematics instruction, (b) describe some considerations in and ways of teaching problem solving, (c) present an extensive bibliography chosen to help those initiating or teaching problem-solving courses or problem-solving sequences within courses, and (d) give the results of a survey conducted by the Committee on the Teaching of Mathematics of the Mathematical Association of America; the survey provided the impetus for PSMC. Accordingly, the book is divided into four parts. The short first part describes the evolution of PSMC and the recommendations of the Committee on the Teaching of Mathematics. The second part, a more-or-less personal essay by Alan Schoenfeld, gives suggestions for teaching problem solving. The third and most extensive part is an annotated bibliography of journals, books, and articles that might be used to develop in struction in problem solving or to find appropriate problems for such instruction. The last part presents both the survey instrument and the results of the survey.

Herbert Ellsworth Slaught

1937 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
W. D. Reeve
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
American Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
National Council ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Local Organizations ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Science And Mathematics Teachers

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.

AAAS Section on Mathematics

1971 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 766-767
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
State Department ◽  
The State ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Research Center ◽  
National Council ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
State Department Of Education

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Mathematical Association of America are cosponsoring a session called “The Relation between the Applications of Mathematics and the Teaching of Mathematics” at the AAAS convention to be held this December in Philadelphia. The session has been arranged by Henry O. Pollak and Isabelle P. Rucker. Henry Pollak is director of the Mathematics and Statistics Research Center at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, and Isabelle Rucker is supervisor of mathematics for the State Department of Education, Richmond, Virginia.

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