Presenting the Report of the Joint Commission to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

1940 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 147-149
Author(s):  
E. R. Breslich
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Joint Commission ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Council ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Lasting Impression ◽  
Mathematical Curriculum ◽  
The Joint Commission

The Development of the mathematical curriculum of the secondary schools is divided into two periods, one from 1893 to 1923 and the other from 1923 to 1940. The first period begins with the report of the famous Committee of Ten on Secondary Studies, the second with the report of the equally famous Committee on Mathematical Requirements. Each report has made a lasting impression on the mathematical curriculum. The presentation of the report of the Joint Commission marks the beginning of a third period in the advancement of the course of secondary school mathematics. Its influence will soon be seen in the forthcorrung textbooks and in the newer courses of study.

Examining the Recruitment, Placement, and Career Trajectories of Secondary Mathematics Teachers Prepared for High-Need Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
William Zahner ◽  
Suzanne Chapin ◽  
Rich Levine ◽  
Lingjun A. He ◽  
Robert Afonso
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Early Career ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Attrition Rate ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Stem Majors ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
High Need Schools

Background School leaders are challenged by the relatively limited supply and high turnover of qualified secondary school mathematics teachers. In response, policy makers and teacher educators have developed various pathways and incentives to recruit, train, place, and support highly qualified mathematics teachers to work in hard-to-staff schools. Focus of Study In this study, we investigate the recruitment, placement, and early career trajectories of 158 Grades 6–12 mathematics teachers from two preparation programs focused on staffing “high-need” schools in the same region. Setting The contrasting programs were both supported by the same university in the Northeast United States. Participants & Programs The participants were 158 secondary school (Grades 6–12) mathematics teachers. Of these, 48 were recruited and prepared through a teacher education program with financial support from the National Science Foundation-funded Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. The other 110 school mathematics teachers were recruited and trained through the Greater Boston office of Teach For America. Both programs required two years of service in high-need schools. Research Design In this study, we used a comparative design. Descriptive profiles of teachers from each program were created. Then, participants’ early career trajectories were compared using logistic regression and survival analysis. Data Collection and Analysis We administered a longitudinal survey and created a database combining survey data and each program's administrative data. Conclusions Our data illustrate that the Noyce scholarship-supported pathway was generally successful in recruiting individuals with STEM majors, training them to be mathematics teachers, and placing those individuals as secondary school mathematics teachers in high-need schools. The comparison of the scholarship-pathway teachers with the secondary school mathematics teachers in the alternative-certification pathway provides a useful contrast. On the one hand, the alternatively certified secondary school mathematics teachers were less likely than the scholarship-pathway teachers to have STEM majors, and the attrition rate for the alternatively prepared teachers was higher than the attrition rate for the scholarship-supported teachers, particularly after they had completed the two-year service requirement. On the other hand, the alternative-certification program recruited a more diverse pool of potential teachers and placed these teachers in schools serving a higher proportion of low-SES students.

An Achievement test in Solid Geometry

1928 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
Louis A. McCoy
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Achievement Test ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Good Teacher ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

In the work of teaching secondary school mathematics in a large school where there are as many as twelve different divisions of the same subject, it would be very interesting and indeed very enlightening to see the different grades of work being done. Different teachers have their own pet ways of doing things, of presenting new matter, of conducting recitations, of drilling on old matter, of developing mathematical power in their pupils, etc. And yet they are all striving for the same results. The fact that one teacher's pupils consistently attain better results naturally should put a premium on that teacher's methods, and the work of the department would be improved if some of the other teachers would take a leaf out of the successful teacher's book. Students will often remark “So and So is a good teacher; I get a lot out of his class; he makes things clear; he has good discipline; he certainly gets the stuff over, etc.”An inspector visits the class, notes the attitude of the pupils, the personality and skill of the teacher, and oftentimes is familiar enough with the subject matter of the recitation to see if the pupils are catching and giving back the right things, and then grades the teacher as an Al man, for example. But does the opinion of the boys themselves or the visitor answer the question whether or not the teacher is successful in giving his subject to the pupils? Don't we need something more objective, more tangible, more exact on which to pin our faith? In general the supervisors are hitting it right, also the students, but we think we can do better.

Call for Manuscripts: Focus Issues on the Role of Proof throughout the Mathematics Curriculum

1996 ◽  
Vol 89 (6) ◽  
pp. 507
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics

Proof has traditionally been the touchstone of mathematics—that which distinguishes it from the other sciences. The role and nature of proof in a Standards-based curriculum merit reexamination in an era of reform. In 1998 a fall issue of the Mathematics Teacher will focus on the theme of proof in all aspects of secondary school mathematics. The Editorial Panel is seeking manuscripts for this issue.

Call for Manuscripts: Focus Issue on the Role of Proof throughout the Mathematics Curriculum

1997 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics

Proof has traditionally been the touchstone of mathematics—that which distinguishes it from the other sciences. The role and nature of proof in a Standards-based curriculum merit reexamination in an era of reform. In 1998 a fall issue of the Mathematics Teacher will focus on the theme of proof in all aspects of secondary school mathematics. The Editorial Panel is seeking manuscripts for this issue.

Notes and News

1920 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
National Council ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Local Organizations ◽  
Central Organization

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

News Notes

1937 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 298
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
General Education ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Joint Commission ◽  
Partial Report ◽  
National Council ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
The Joint Commission

The Joint Commission on the Place of Mathematics in the Secondary Schools plans to issue a preliminary partial report early in 1938. Composed of members of both the Mathematical Association of America and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the Commission bas been considering its problems since 1935. A grant from the General Education Board received in January, 1937, made possible a series of meetings which have led to the forth-coming preliminary report.

Call for Manuscripts: Focus Issue on the Role of Proof throughout the Mathematics Curriculum

1996 ◽  
Vol 89 (9) ◽  
pp. 733
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics

Proof has tradjtionally been the touchstone of mathematics—that which distinguishes it from the other sciences. The role and nature of proof in a Standards-based curriculum merit reexamination in an era of reform. In 1998 a fall issue of the Mathematics Teacher will focus on the theme of proof in all aspects of secondary school mathematics. The Editorial Panel is seeking manuscripts for this issue.

scholarly journals Effective Teaching and Evaluation of Mathematics by Secondary School Mathematics Teachers in the North West Region of Cameroon

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-25
Author(s):  
Beyoh Dieudone Nkepah
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
National Council ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
West Region ◽  
Research Questions

The study set out to examined the extent to which secondary school mathematics teachers implement the principles of effective teaching and evaluation of mathematics as put forward by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics – NCTM; principles which when effectively implemented will enable learners to construct knowledge thereby doing away with mathematics phobia, and consequently performing better in mathematics. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was made up of 600 public and private secondary school mathematics teachers serving in the North West Region of Cameroon. Using the Taro Yamane’s formula, 240 mathematics teachers selected through simple random sampling, constituted the sample of the study. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. A questionnaire whose Cronbach alpha reliability was found to be 0.87 was used to collect relevant data. The data collected was analysed using mean to answer the research questions and t-test to test the hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that the level of implementation of the principles of effective teaching and evaluation of mathematics by secondary school mathematics teachers in the North West Region of Cameroon is significantly low. Furthermore, male and female mathematics teachers do not differ significantly in their implementation of the principles of effective teaching and evaluation of mathematics. It was recommended among other things that secondary school mathematics teachers should embrace the NCTM principles of effective teaching and evaluation of mathematics with finesse and incorporate them within their instructional programs and practices.

Preparation for Teaching Secondary-School Mathematics

1938 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 201-204
Author(s):  
Henry H. Hagen ◽  
Norman L. Samuelson
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
North Central Association ◽  
North Central ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
The North

Over five hundred principals and teachers of mathematics in one hundred secondary schools in twenty states agree that the successful teacher of mathematics is usually one whose training and experiences have been extensive, one who is not merely a specialist in the field of mathematics, as the child—not the subjectmatter—is the first consideration here, as in all fields. The basis for this statement results from a recent investigation made by the Commission on Unit Courses and Currirula of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, a preliminary report of which has been previously published.* The generalization was drawn from responses to questionnaires submitted by this group of educators.

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