Mathematics in High School and College

1945 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 147-154
Author(s):  
Aubrey J. Kempner
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Mathematics Text

The publication of a high-school mathematics text, Senior Mathematics, by Douglass and Kinney (Henry Holt and Co., 1945) furnishes me an opportunity to express some opinions concerning the relation between mathematics in the secondary school and in the college.

Sex Differences in Secondary School Mathematics

1937 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-22
Author(s):  
Harl R. Douglass
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
American Educational Research Association ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Committee Report ◽  
Research Association ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Reporting Data

In connection with a committee report for the American Educational Research Association the author had occasion to search for and abstract the investigations reporting data relative to the respective achievements of boys and girls in high school mathematics. More studies were located than are reported here. Some of them were of doubtful reliability and a few were not available.

A Tentative Program of Junior High-School Mathematics

1917 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
C. B. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Unstable State ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
State Of Affairs

The statement is axiomatic and perhaps trite that the teaching of secondary-school mathematics is in a state of unrest. This condition has been aggravated, if not caused, by excessive criticism and this unstable state of affairs is reflected by the numerous new courses of study. It is consequently as inevitable as it is probably desirable that our curriculum in mathematics is to be reconstructed.

Present Tendencies in High School Mathematics

1924 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Jonathan T. Rorer
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
National Committee ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Standard Source ◽  
Source Of Information

The present tendencies in high school mathematics are well reflected by the report of the National Committee on Mathematical Requirements, which was organized in 1916, and which has completed the most exhaustive research ever attempted into the conditions now existing in mathematics teaching. The work of the National Committee already has had a far-reaching influence on mathematics teaching. It represents a great piece of cooperative work, a systematic presentation of the thought and practice of many members of this association and of other teachers interested in the improvement of mathematics teaching. It will be for a long while a standard source of information for anyone who desires to know modern tendencies in secondary school mathematics.

Remedial work in High School Mathematics

1930 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-51
Author(s):  
L. H. Whitcraft
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Curriculum ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Method Of Instruction ◽  
Remedial Work

Teachers of high school mathematics are confronted with the fact that there are more failures in the mathematics of the secondary school than in any other subject in the secondary school curriculum. These failures may be traced to some one of the following factors; (1) the materials of mathematics, consisting of the textbook, practice exercises, and special devices; (2) the teacher's method of instruction and manner of presenting the subject matter to the pupils; or (3) the methods and processes of the pupils themselves. Now that the teachers of mathematics realize that there is a great amount of criticism due the department of mathematics what are they going to do about it? The answer should be the same as the elementary teachers have given to the criticisms which have come to them-give remedial work.

The Second U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad

1974 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-119
Author(s):  
Samuel L. Greitzer
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
New Venture ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematical Talent ◽  
Honor Roll ◽  
Mathematics Examination

Because the U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad is a new venture, a brief explanation is pertinent. The purpose of the Olympiad is to attempt to discover secondary school students with superior mathematical talent—students who possess creativity and inventiveness as well as computational skills. Participation is limited to about one-hundred students selected mainly from the Honor Roll of the Annual High School Mathematics Examination plus a few recommended students from the states that sponsor their own high school mathematics competitions. The Olympiad consists of five problems of the essay type requiring mathematical power on the part of the participants.

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

The Next Step for The Administrator in Junior High School Mathematics

1922 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-29
Author(s):  
Joseph K. van Denbuhg
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Experienced Teachers ◽  
New Work ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
The One

From the administrators’ point of view the next step in administration of high school mathematics is that of clearing the minds of many old and experienced teachers of the idea that there can be no improvement in secondary school courses in mathematics. As I see it this is the one great barrier to the advancement of the new work.

The Value of the History of Greek Mathematics to Secondary School Teachers

1925 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 296-297
Author(s):  
Walter Crosby Eells
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Greek Mathematics

The course in history of mathematics is given this year at Whitman College two hours a week for sixteen weeks to a class of five juniors and seniors, all of whom are planning on teaching high school mathematics.

Experimental Studies of Large Unit and Individualized Plans of Supervised Study of Secondary School Mathematics

1936 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 387-389
Author(s):  
Harl R. Douglass
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Large Unit ◽  
Relative Value

While no one study may furnish the basis for definite or permanent conclusions with respect to the relative value of various proposed plans of directing the study of high school mathematics involving large unit assignments and individualized progress, one may better evaluate the claims made for and against such plans, if one is familiar with the results of those experimental studies which throw light on the question.

Permanency of Retention of learning in Secondary School Mathematics

1936 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 287-288
Author(s):  
Harl R. Douglass
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics

There have been many statements and disagreements and a few investigations relative to the proportions of high school mathematics once learned which will be remembered after the passage of various amounts of time.

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