Have You Heard?

1950 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-125
Author(s):  
Edith Woolsey
Keyword(s):  
Discussion Groups ◽  
National Council ◽  
Group Leaders ◽  
Entire Field ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

The small discussion groups at the summer meeting of the National Council in Denver last August brought out many interesting and valuable ideas. The topics for discussion were selected by the group leaders, and cover the entire field of the teaching of mathematics. Reports on a few will be given here with the hope that they will be of value to you, both in your own teaching and in your local mathematics club program.

Division of fractional numbers

1969 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-103
Author(s):  
James W. Heddens ◽  
Michael Hynes
Keyword(s):  
National Council ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Fractional Numbers

The following axioms for the teaching of mathematics are offered in the Twentyfourth Yearbook of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.1

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: The Council's drive to improve school mathematics

1963 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 368-375
Author(s):  
Frank B. Allen
Keyword(s):  
School Mathematics ◽  
National Council ◽  
Local Organizations ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
High Degree

According to our Articles of Incorporation, the object of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is “To assist in promoting the interest of mathematics in America, especially in the elementary and secondary fields, by holding meetings for the presentation and discussion of papers, by conducting investigations for the purpose of improving the teaching of mathematics, by the publication of papers, journals, books, and reports: thus, to vitalize and coordinate the work of many local organizations of teachers of mathematics and to bring the interest of mathematics to the attention and consideration of the educational world.” I believe that any impartial review of our accomplishments will support the conclusion that we have achieved a high degree of success in the attainment of this objective.

Language Activities That Promote Awareness of Mathematics

1988 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
James S. Cangelosi
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Real World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
National Council ◽  
Life Meaning ◽  
The Real ◽  
Education Literature ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Primary Focus

Developing students' abilities to rcason with mathematics and apply mathematics to the solution of problems occurring in the real world hould be a primary focus of school mathematics (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 1980). However, most mathemati cal curricula seem to place more emphasis on memorization of fact and algorithm than on reasoning and problem solving (Romberg and Carpenter 1986). The mathematics education literature abound with ideas for reversing the emphasis on memorization and for guiding the teaching of mathematics so that it has real-life meaning for children. Included among the idea are the following:

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.

Herbert Ellsworth Slaught

1937 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
W. D. Reeve
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
American Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
National Council ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Local Organizations ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Science And Mathematics Teachers

Professor Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, honorary president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, passed away on May 21, 1937, at his home in Chicago in his seventy-sixth year. Professor Slaught's death removes from the scene of action one of the most devoted servants of the cause of mathematics in this country. For many years he was active not only in the affairs of the National Council, but also in those of the Mathematical Association of America, The American Mathematical Society, the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers and several local organizations. He was a leader in the best sense. He was interested not only in promulgating and encouraging research activities, but was also active in stimulating others to study and improve the teaching of mathematics in secondary schools. He was instrumental in founding the Mathematical Association of America in 1916, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1920. His death is a distinct loss to all the mathematical organizations that he served so long and so well.

AAAS Section on Mathematics

1971 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 766-767
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
State Department ◽  
The State ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Research Center ◽  
National Council ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
State Department Of Education

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Mathematical Association of America are cosponsoring a session called “The Relation between the Applications of Mathematics and the Teaching of Mathematics” at the AAAS convention to be held this December in Philadelphia. The session has been arranged by Henry O. Pollak and Isabelle P. Rucker. Henry Pollak is director of the Mathematics and Statistics Research Center at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, and Isabelle Rucker is supervisor of mathematics for the State Department of Education, Richmond, Virginia.

Experimental Programs: Innovations and Research in the Teaching of Mathematics to the Terminal Student

1967 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 611-618
Author(s):  
Sol Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Low Achievers ◽  
National Council ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
The U.S

Just two years ago, about fifty people interested in improving the mathematics education of low achievers met in Washington, D.C. The meeting was sponsored jointly by the U.S. Office of Education and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Experimental projects and research: Analysis of research in the teaching of mathematics: 1957 and 1958

1961 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-82
Author(s):  
J. Fred Weaver
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
National Council ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
New York University ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Published Report ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Research Analysis

Readers of THE ARITHMETIC TEACHER will be interested in a recently published report, Analysis of Research in the Teaching of Mathematics: 1957 and 1958, prepared by Kenneth E. Brown and John J. Kinsella.* Dr. Brown is specialist for mathematics, Office of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Prof. Kinsella, of the Department of Science and Mathematics Education of the New York University School of Education, is chairman of the Research Committee of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

An Important Contribution to the Teaching of Mathematics

1926 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-194
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Mathematics ◽  
First Year ◽  
National Council ◽  
General Survey ◽  
General Theme ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has made an important contribution to the teaching of elementary mathematics through the publication of its First Year Book The general theme of the book is a General Survey of Progress in the Last Twenty-Five Years. Professors David Eugene Smith, Eliakim Hastings Moore, Raleigh Schorling, William David Reeve, Frank Clapp, Herbert E. Slaught, Miss Marie Gugle, Mr. William Betz and Mr. Edwin W. Schreiber are the contributors.

The Two Recent National Reports on Mathematics in General Education

1940 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 370
Author(s):  
Mary A. Potter
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
National Council ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

If there were no problems in the teaching of mathematics; if all methods of procedure had been perfectly worked out; if all desirable applications of mathematics were known; if all teachers had been chosen with the greatest skill and had become accomplished artists; if all children had been created with a uniform mental, emotional, moral, and social pattern; if the relative importance of all school subjects had been exactly determined; if the world in which mathematics is used would remain static, then there would be little need of a National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and Reports would be undesired luxuries.

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