Editorial

1940 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
Active Service ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

The May 1926 number of THE MATHEMATICS TEACHER was issued in honor of Professor David Eugene Smith, who in February of that year retired from active service at Teachers College, Columbia University. At that time his students and colleagues presented a portrait of Professor Smith to the college and gave a dinner in his honor. They endeavored to express to him their appreciation of the uniqueness of his work and their regard for him as a teacher and friend. Professor Smith's influence on the teaching of mathematics had been such that it seemed appropriate then to the editors of THE MATHEMATICS TEACHER to bring together in one number of the magazine the interpretations of his work and contributions as they were made on these occasions.

Pre-Induction Courses in Mathematics

1943 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 114-124
Author(s):  
John W. Studebaker
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Council ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
The Public ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

The United States Office of Education has received urgent and repeated requests from individuals and organizations throughout the country to give the secondary schools detailed suggestions for the teaching of mathematics for pre-induction purposes. In December 1942, the Office in cooperation with the President of The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics appointed a committee to make a survey of the mathematical needs of the armed forces and upon this basis to make a report concerning what the schools can do for the emergency. The committee consisted of Virgil S. Mallory, Professor of Mathematics, New Jersey State Teachers College at Montclair; William D. Reeve, Professor of Mathematics, Teachers College, Columbia University; Giles M. Ruch, Chief, Research and Statistical Service, U. S. Office of Education; Raleigh Schorling, Professor of Education, University of Michigan; and Rolland It. Smith, Specialist in Mathematics for the Public Schools of Springfield, Massachusetts, and President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Dr. Smith served as chairman of the Committee.

Application

1951 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 502-505
Author(s):  
Sheldon S. Myers
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
High School Algebra ◽  
Problem Material

Your department editor has been doing a great deal of thinking and reading concerning the role of applications in mathematics instruction. Following are several key references which we have found: “The Necessary Redirection of Mathematics, Including its Relation to National Defense,” by William Betz in The Mathematics Teacher, April, 1912, page 147; “The Use of Applications for Instructional Purposes,” by Edwin G. Olds in The Mathematics Teacher, February, 1941, page 78; “The Mathematics Most Used in the Sciences of Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and Higher Mathematics,” by George II. Nickle in The Mathematics Teacher, February, 1942, page 77; A Study of Problem Material in High School Algebra by Jesse Powell, Contributions to Education, No. 405, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1929.

News Notes

1935 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 322-323
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
College Algebra ◽  
Junior Colleges ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Analytic Geometry ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
The University

Professor Earle R. Hedrick of the University of California at Los Angeles will give two courses in mathematics this summer at Teachers College, Columbia University. One course will deal with professionalized subject matter in algebra and geometry. It will treat those topics in elementary algebra and geometry that offer peculiar difficulty to teachers. The other course will deal with the teaching of mathematics in junior colleges and in lower divisions of colleges and universities. Here an attempt will be made to study the pedagogical questions that arise in instruction in college algebra, trigonometry, analytic geometry, and the calculus.

Objectives in Teaching Demonstrative Geometry

1927 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 435-450
Author(s):  
W. D. Reeve
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
The Other ◽  
Elementary Algebra ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
Intermediate Algebra ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

In The Mathematics Teacher for November, 1925 I published an article on “Objectives in the Teaching of Mathematics,” a large part of which was a list of specific objectives in elementary algebra. In the March 1927 issue of the same magazine I published a list of objectives to be attained in teaching intermediate algebra. In the preparation of these lists I had the assistance of a large number of my students in Teachers College who are mature teachers of experience. The objectives therein presented have furnished many groups with basic lists of aims which have been used in preparing new courses of study in various parts of the country. In the last two years I have also prepared, with the help of my students a list of objectives to be obtained in the teaching of demonstrative geometry. As was the case with the other two lists, this new group of objectives is not intended to be final, but tentative. We are willing to present them to the readers of The Mathematics Teacher because we hope that in this way they will be discussed and some more definite aims established in the teaching of geometry.

Announcement

1927 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 352-353
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
York City ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
New York University ◽  
Teachers College

Beginning with this issue The Mathematics Teacher will be published under the combined editorship and business management of Dr. John R. Clark of the School of Education at New York University and Dr. W. D. Reeve of Teachers College, Columbia University. All communications relating to THE Mathematics Teacher should be addressed to The Mathematics Teacher, 525 West 120th Street, New York City.

News Notes

1935 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-131
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Junior Colleges ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
The University

Professor Earle R. Hedluck of the University of California at Los Angeles will give two courses in Mathematics at Teachers College, Columbia University this summer. The first course will be on “Teaching Mathematics in Junior Colleges and in Lower Divisions of Colleges and Universities” and the second on “Professionalized Subject-Matter in Algebra and Geometry.” A more complete description of the nature of the above courses will appear in a later issue of The Mathematics Teacher.

Clifford Brewster Upton: May 10, 1877-September 25, 1957

1957 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Vera Sanford
Keyword(s):  
Columbia University ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Younger Generation

Professor Upton is known to the younger generation of teachers as an author of textbooks in arithmetic, first the Strayer-Up ton series and currently the Upton-Fuller. They know him through his contributions to the literature of the teaching of mathematics, respecting his scholarship, his clear exposition and the artistry of his work, and regretting that these monographs are so few. His students—there were many of them in the thirty odd years that he was at Teachers College, Columbia University—are indebted to him for inspiration, guidance, counsel, occasional admonition, and for the standards of performance in study, teaching, and writing that he required.

Editorial: National Council Publications

1941 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 133
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Official Journal ◽  
National Council ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
Subscription Price ◽  
June July August ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
June July

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has published three different types of material. First, there is THE MATHEMATICS TEACHER, the official journal of the Council, which is published every month except in June, July, August and September, the subscription price of which is $2.00 per year. Second, there are the yearbooks (sixteen of them to date) on important topics related to the teaching of Mathematics, which (except for the first and second which are now out of print) can be had postpaid for $1.25 each. Or if desired, all of the yearbooks still available, namely 3- 16 inclusive, may be had from The Bureau of Publications, Teachers College 525 W. 120 St., New York, N. Y. for $14.00 postpaid. Third, the Council has published the first of a series of monographs on “Contributions of Mathematics to Civilization,” which can be had from The Bureau of Publications above for 25¢ postpaid. Other monographs in the series are in preparation and will be published as soon as possible.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document