Classics in Mathematics Education: Sets, Sinners, and Salvation

1966 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-363
Author(s):  
Albert E. Meder
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
College Entrance Examination ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
Great Honor ◽  
The Real ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Independent Decision ◽  
Examination Board

Author's Note.—”Sets, Sinners, and Salvation” was prepared to describe the context in which the Report of the Commission on Mathematics of the College Entrance Examination Board should be read and considered. It is naturally a great honor, of which I am keenly appreciative, to have it selected in so short a time—seven years—as a classic in mathematical education, but the real classic is the Commission Report. Happily, by an independent decision, the College Entrance Examination Board is reprinting the Report, so that I can again urge, as I did seven years ago, that it be read, reacted to, and tried.

The College Entrance Examination Board and Mathematics Education

1984 ◽  
Vol 77 (5) ◽  
pp. 369-371
Author(s):  
Chancey O. Jones ◽  
John A. Valentine
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
College Entrance Examination ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
College Board ◽  
The World ◽  
Education Today ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Examination Board

The participation by secondary school and college teachers of computer science in the development of an Advanced Placement computer science course description and examination is a good example of the interaction between the world of the College Board and the world of mathematics. A long series of such interactions has occurred since the College Board was founded at the turn of the century; a look back at how the board was created and how it has evolved can help to explain the relationship between board activities and mathematics education today.

Report of the Commission on Examinations in Mathematics to the College Entrance Examination Board

1935 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
W. D. Reeve
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
College Entrance Examination ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Examination Board

The “Report of the Commission on Examinations in Mathematics” to the College Entrance Examination Board appearing on pages 154–166 of this issue of The Mathematics Teacher will be of particular interest to all teachers of secondary school mathematics.

Editorials

1937 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
General Education ◽  
New York State ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
National Council ◽  
College Entrance Examination ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Examination Board

Inasmuch as we are all interested in the general problem of what should constitute general education for the masses and in the particular problem of what part mathematics should play in that education, it is of great importance that the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics take a prominent interest in the deliberations and reports of various groups throughout the country who have been studying such problems. The social studies commission, for example, has spent an enormous amount of time and money in getting out a large number of reports. The College Entrance Examination Board has been reorganizing its requirements. A new study is just being inaugurated in connection with education in New York State under the Regents’ system. We have our own Joint Commission of the Mathematics Association of America and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics on “The Place of Mathematics in Secondary Education.” This Commission will have to study the above problems, but their report will be more complete and helpful if they have had the support and advice of an alert membership of the two large groups which they represent. It is to be hoped, therefore, that all teachers of mathematics will follow the work of this Commission.

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