College Entrance Requirements in Geometry

1929 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 487-488
Author(s):  
Dunham Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Plane Geometry ◽  
Appreciable Amount ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
First Year ◽  
National Council ◽  
College Entrance Examination ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
Extensive Introduction ◽  
Examination Board

A proposal bas been made to the College Entrance Examination Board that it should modify its requirements so as to bring about the more extensive introduction of courses including an appreciable amount of solid geometry in the first year of geometry, in place of a part of the plane geometry ordinarily taught. In response to a request from the Board, a committee has been appointed by the Mathematical Associntion of America and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics to discuss the feasibility of the proposal.

Beginning Geometry and College Entrance

1928 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-45
Author(s):  
Ralph Beatley
Keyword(s):  
Plane Geometry ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
National Committee ◽  
College Entrance Examination ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
Standard Requirement ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
One Year ◽  
Examination Board

In 1923 the College Entrance Examination Board published its Document 108 embodying a detailed statement of the revised requirements in plane and solid geometry. Those who were charged with the preparatjon cf this document gave heed to a suggestion of the National Committee on Mathematical Requirements1 with respect to the desirability of introducing the more elementary notions of solid geometry in connection with related ideas of plane geometry, and prepared accordingly the syllabus for Geometry cd, the so-called Minor Requirement in Plane and Solid Geometry. Document 108 states that “this requirement is designed to cover the most important parts of plane and solid geometry, in such a way that the preparation for it can be completed in the time usually devoted to the standard requirement in plane geometry,” i.e., one year.

Editorials

1937 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
General Education ◽  
New York State ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
National Council ◽  
College Entrance Examination ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Examination Board

Inasmuch as we are all interested in the general problem of what should constitute general education for the masses and in the particular problem of what part mathematics should play in that education, it is of great importance that the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics take a prominent interest in the deliberations and reports of various groups throughout the country who have been studying such problems. The social studies commission, for example, has spent an enormous amount of time and money in getting out a large number of reports. The College Entrance Examination Board has been reorganizing its requirements. A new study is just being inaugurated in connection with education in New York State under the Regents’ system. We have our own Joint Commission of the Mathematics Association of America and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics on “The Place of Mathematics in Secondary Education.” This Commission will have to study the above problems, but their report will be more complete and helpful if they have had the support and advice of an alert membership of the two large groups which they represent. It is to be hoped, therefore, that all teachers of mathematics will follow the work of this Commission.

Drawing for Teachers of Solid Geometry

1924 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 475-481
Author(s):  
John W. Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Geometry ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Moderate Degree ◽  
College Entrance Examination ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Examination Board

The College Entrance Examination Board in its Document No. 108, containing a definition of the requirements in geometry adopted by the board on April 21, 1923, has included an appendix on drawing which opens with the following paragraphs:“An important aid to the visualization of space figures is the ability to draw these figures on paper. The pupil should be trained to make neat free-hand drawings, inserting whatever construction lines are needed and supplementing the representation of the space figure by independent drawings of plane sections, whenever such contribute to clearness. Ruler and compasses may often be used with advantage, but no technical knowledge of descriptive geometry or the niceties of mechanical drawing forms any part of the requirement. The use of ruler and compasses in the examination is permitted and to a moderate degree, desirable but it is not prescribed.

Report of the Committee on Geometry

1931 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 298-302
Keyword(s):  
Plane Geometry ◽  
National Council ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
Extensive Introduction ◽  
College Entrance Requirements

Early in 1929 a committee was appointed jointly by the Mathematical Association of America and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, to study the feasibility of a proposal that college entrance requirements in geometry should be modified so as to bring about the more extensive introduction of courses including the essentials of plane and solid geometry in a single year's work, in place of the traditional year of plane geometry. The Committee begs leave to report as follows:

Drawing for Teachers of Solid Geometry

1933 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-145
Author(s):  
John W. Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
Parallel Projection ◽  
Curved Surfaces ◽  
College Entrance Examination ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
The Right ◽  
Examination Board

In earlier parts of this discussion1 we have been concerned with the picturing in oblique parallel projection of certain simple solids bounded by plane surfaces. In this part we shall continue the study with a consideration of the simplest curved surfaces, the right circular cylinder and the sphere. The Appendix on “Drawing” (pages 35- 39) of Document No. 108 of the College Entrance Examination Board on Geometry furnishes the outline; the following quotations are taken from this Document. References to figures are to the figures in that document, some of which are reproduced in this article.

News Notes

1934 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 266-270
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
The Other ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
National Council ◽  
College Entrance Examination ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
Connecticut Valley ◽  
Examination Board

At a meeting held in Cambridge, January 20, 1934, at which 80 members were present, the Association passed the following votes concerning geometry, for communication to the Committee on Geometry of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and to the Commission on Mathematics of the College Entrance Examination Board. These votes grew out of a series of resolutions which were framed by two committees of this Association, one committee representing the eastern part of New England, the other the Connecticut Valley Branch of this Association.

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