The College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test: An Overview of the Mathematical Portion

1978 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-180
Author(s):  
James S. Braswell
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Scholastic Aptitude Test ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Aptitude Test ◽  
College Board ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Scholastic Aptitude

From time to time I have been asked to speak to groups of high school mathematics teachers about the mathematical portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). This article affords an opportunity to provide current information about this test to a greater audience of mathematics teachers and others interested in mathematics education.

NCTM's Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics: Our Role in the Middle

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 290-294
Author(s):  
Sarah B. Bush
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Middle Schools ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics

The success of Catalyzing Change is contingent on the preparation and experiences that students bring with them to high school—which is the role of middle schools. We have the shared responsibility of providing an equitable mathematics education for each and every student.

From the 2000s: Facing Facts: Achieving Balance in High School Mathematics

2006 ◽  
Vol 100 (5) ◽  
pp. 86-95
Author(s):  
Lynn Arthur Steen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Unique Power ◽  
Current Curriculum ◽  
Mathematical Applications

This article from 2005 presents comprehensive analysis of the state of mathematics education since launching of soviet Sputnik till now concluding that despite extraordinary efforts today's typical 17-year-old knows no more mathematics than his or her grandparents at the same age. After the analysis of the problem author proposes two recommendations balancing interests of different stakeholders. He concludes that due to the extraordinary recent expansion of mathematical applications a new strategy may be used. He believes that the unique power of mathematics that the current curriculum provides for a minority of calculus-bound students, such as reasoning, abstraction, generalization, can extended to a substantial majority of students through a more diverse curriculum designed to offer breadth, balance, utility, and coherence.

The Junior High School Mathematics Program— Past, Present, and Future

1970 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 383-390
Author(s):  
W. Eugene Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Mathematical Ideas ◽  
Mathematics Program ◽  
Education Today ◽  
High Level

Many teachers believe that the junior high school is “where the action is” in mathematics education today. Students at the junior high level usually are intellectually curious, full of life, and willing to spend some time exploring in depth mathematical ideas and concepts.

Experimental Programs: Research in the Teaching of High School Mathematics

1966 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Brown ◽  
Theodore L. Abell
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
National Council ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Research In Mathematics Education

Since 1952 the U.S. Office of Education, in cooperation with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, has prepared a biannual summary of research in mathematics education. The present survey is based on the 645 replies from a thousand colleges that were sent the questionnaire. Many of the colleges responded even though they had no research to contribute to the study. In their answers they requested a report of the findings. About 125 of the reported studies for the calendar years 1961-62 were on mathematics education in grades 9-12.

Experimental Programs: An Experimental Twelfth-Grade Mathematics Course

1967 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-380
Author(s):  
Hyman Gabai
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Current Problem ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
School Students ◽  
Twelfth Grade ◽  
A Current ◽  
Mathematics Course

A Current problem in high school mathematics education concerns the question of what mathematical topics ought to be taught to twelfth-grade high school students.

Performing Operations with Matrices on Spreadsheets

1998 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 338-341
Author(s):  
Dusan Pagon
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Linear Algebra ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Middle School Mathematics ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Interested Reader ◽  
Basic Concepts

Although created mainly for other purposes, spreadsheets appear to be useful in mathematics education. For instance, Russell (1992) writes about spreadsheet activities in middle school mathematics in his book with the same title. In a Mathematics Teacher article, Hunt (1995) describes how he uses spreadsheets to teach students synthetic substitution, synthetic division, and Newton's method. Our experience shows that the same tool can be useful for performing matru operations and, further on, for introducing students to basic concepts of linear algebra. The interested reader can find additional examples of using spreadsheets in high school mathematics in Sjostrand's (1994) book, which deals with Excel spreadsheets.

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