Scientific Investigations oF the Teaching of High School Mathematics Reported in 1932

1933 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 372-381
Author(s):  
H. E. Benz

About a year ago the present writer prepared a summary of scientific investigations of the teaching of high school mathematics. This summary was published as a chapter in the Eighth Yearbook of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and included material from 132 references selected chiefly because they met the usual criteria of scientific research. The present report represents an effort to bring this summary down to date by reporting similar studies which were published during 1932. The same classification is used in order to make it easy for the supplement to conform to the original report.

1934 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 344-348
Author(s):  
H. E. Benz

About two years ago the present writer prepared a summary of the investigations of the teaching of high school mathematics through 1931. This summary was brought through 1932 in an article in this journal last October. The present report continues this summary by reporting similar studies published during 1933.


1955 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 413-415
Author(s):  
William David Reeve

I do not think that the various departments, so called, in The Mathematics Teacher are equally interesting or equally valuable, but a new department, introduced in the January, 1955, issue, is one that I think should receive the support of all teachers of mathematics whether or not they are actually members of The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. I refer, of course, to the new department edited by Kinney and Dawson of Stanford University. It will have my full support because I think that we have made a failure, more or less, of the junior high school movement.


2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (6) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Robert Q. Berry ◽  
Matthew R. Larson

Results on the National Assessment for Education Progress and the Program for International Student Assessment show that high school mathematics instruction is past due for a redesign. Despite calls for reform going back at least four decades, the structure of math instruction has remained largely the same. In April 2018, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics released Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics: Initiating Critical Conversations to promote discussion of the changes needed. Robert Berry and Matthew Larson, current and past presidents of NCTM, describe the arguments within this report, asserting that the math curriculum needs to help students understand the mathematics that’s part of daily life, that tracking of students and teachers should be abandoned, that instruction should involve all students as doers of math, and that all students should experience a common curriculum.


1920 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-44

A realization of the need of a central organization to foster the interests of high school mathematics and to secure a greater degree of co-operation between individual teachers and between local associations of teachers interested in secondary school mathematics impelled a group of mathematics teachers to assemble at Cleveland last February at the time of the meeting of the Department of Superintendence of the N. E. A. There were present at this meeting 127 teachers of mathematics representing twenty states and as many local organizations. At that time The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics was formed. A constitution was adopted and the following officers elected


1966 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Brown ◽  
Theodore L. Abell

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.


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