Mathematics in Our Schools and Its Contribution to War

1943 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 310-311
Author(s):  
Sophia H. Levy
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Large Drop ◽  
Elementary Algebra ◽  
Intermediate Algebra ◽  
University Enrollment ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University

Until a year ago, statements that our high school graduates could not do arithmetic were dismissed as of no consequence, in fact, were almost not believed. But Admiral Nimitz's letter concerning the failures in arithmetic tests given recruits entering the Navy, coming as it did at the very beginning of the War, got people more “arithmetic minded” in a few weeks than had all the efforts of teachers of mathematics in our secondary schools and colleges in nearly twenty years. Suddenly arithmetic has been revived. Suddenly there has been a large increase in the number taking courses in mathematics in the secondary schools. Suddenly there has been a large increase in the number taking courses in secondary mathematics at the University. During the semester now closing we have had 3600 students in our department as against 3000 one year ago. This is an increase of 20%, though our University enrollment dropped from 15,000 to 11,000, and enrollment in advanced courses in mathematics suffered a large drop during the same interval. We have had 1100 people taking courses in secondary mathematics. We have had 500 taking intermediate algebra with background of but one year of elementary algebra.

scholarly journals Predicting the Variables That Determine University (Re-)Entrance as a Career Development Using Support Vector Machines with Recursive Feature Elimination: The Case of South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7365
Author(s):  
Taejung Park ◽  
Chayoung Kim
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
South Korea ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Recursive Feature Elimination ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
University Choice ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
Vector Machines ◽  
The University

The current study seeks to identify variables that affect the career decision-making of high school graduates with respect to the choice of university (re-)entrance in South Korea where education has great importance as a tool for self-cultivation and social prestige. For pattern recognition, we adopted a support vector machine with recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) with a big-data of survey of Korean college candidates. Based on the SVM-RFE analysis results, new enrollers were mostly affected by the mesosystems of interactions with parents, while re-enrollers were affected by the macrosystems of social awareness as well as individual estimates of talent and aptitude of individual systems. By predicting the variables that affect the high school graduates’ preparation for university re-entrance, some survey questions provide information on why they make the university choice based on interactions with their parents or acquaintances. Along with these empirical results, implications for future research are also presented.

News Notes

1934 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-105
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Harmon
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Achievement Testing ◽  
Mathematics Section ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The University ◽  
Science And Mathematics Teachers

The mathematics Section of The Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers held its annual meeting at the Congress Hotel in Chlcago on Friday December 1, 1933, with Mr. Maurice L. Hartung of the University High School of Madison, Wisconsin presiding. The following program was given: Appointment of Nominating Committee; “Achievement Testing in Secondary Mathematics,” H. T. Lundholm, The Blake School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; “Dimensionality,” Prof. E. P. Lane, University of Chlcago; “Geometry's Tribute to Tradition,” Dr. Elizabeth B. Cowley, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; General Discussion; Election of Officers.

Why Elementary Algebra Can, Should, and Must Be an Eighth-Grade Course for Average Students

1987 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 428-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zalman Usiskin
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
First Year ◽  
National Council ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Elementary Algebra ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
One Year

Elementary or first-year algebra is the keystone subject in all of secondary mathematics. It is formally studied by students from grade levels as early as seventh grade and as late as college, but begun and completed more often in ninth grade than at any other time. The main purpose of this article is to question that timing. The conclusion to be argued here is that most students should begin the study of algebra one year earlier than they now do. This conclusion is contrary to a recommendation currently subscribed to by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and to the views of a number of leaders in mathematics education. I attempt to show here that these leaders have been misguided.

A Statistical Study in Correlation of Efficiency in Secondary Mathematics and Efficiency in other High School Branches

1919 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-176
Author(s):  
Nelle L. Ingels
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Statistical Study ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Similar Investigation ◽  
The University

It is the purpose of this paper to record the results obtained from an investigation concerning the correlation of efficiency— (1) in the study of mathematics and history, (2) in the study of mathematics and foreign language, and (3) in the study of history and foreign language. A similar investigation was made several years ago by Prof. H. L. Rietz and Miss Imogene Shade, “On the Correlation of Efficiency in Mathematics and Efficiency in Other Branches,” in the University of Illinois.*

News and Notes

1921 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 401-404
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
The University

W. D. Reeve, formerly head of the department of mathematics in the University of Minnesota High School, has been elected to the principalship of the school. Mr. Reeve will continue to give the professional courses in the School of Education on the teaching of secondary mathematics.

Objectives in Teaching of Mathematics in Secondary Schools

1923 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Gertrude E. Allen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Educational Development ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
The University ◽  
New Buildings

We are living in a critical and intensely interesting period of educational development—a time of revaluation, reorganization, and reconstruction. It is our privilege to contribute to this work of reconstruction in the University High School and share in the pleasure and responsibility of planning new buildings and of shaping the aims and policies of the curriculum. In the clear light of our accepted objectives of education in a democracy, we have set at our work anew, and “each in his separate star” has taken a splash at the same ten-league cancas, to draw the thing as he sees it with whatever skill he may command—using the brushes of camel's hair or. if he is not so favorably endowed, the crude pencil or palette knife.

Ungraded Classes for Superior Pupils

1944 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-83
Author(s):  
Burr D. Coe
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Plane Geometry ◽  
Spherical Trigonometry ◽  
Elementary Algebra ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
Intermediate Algebra

Elementary algebra, plane geometry, intermediate algebra, plane and spherical trigonometry, solid geometry, and advanced algebra are all being studied in the same room at the same time. Sounds something like a one-room country school, doesn't it? This is being done by a group of mentally superior pupils in two ungraded classes (taught by the writer) at Monroe High School.

Father and I

2013 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
Chen Ning Yang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
High School Teacher ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
The Usa ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University

Father (K. C. Yang (楊克純), 1896–1973) was a high school teacher in Anqing (安慶) in 1922 when I was born in Hefei (合肥). Anqing was then also called Huaining (懷寧). Father gave me the name Chen Ning, of which Chen was the name of my generation in our family, and Ning was derived from Huaining. Before I was one year old Father won an Anhui (安徽) Provincial Fellowship for studying in the USA. We had a family picture (Fig. 1) taken in the courtyard outside our bedroom a few days before he left home. Father had on the traditional robe and coat, standing stiff and erect. He had probably up to that point never worn a western suit. Two years later he sent a picture (Fig. 2) to Mother from the University of Chicago, in which his attire and bearing had both entered the twentieth century. Father was a handsome man. The exuberance and optimism of his youth were clearly captured in this photograph.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document