International Mathematical Education: The Chambery Plan— Stages and Perspectives in the Reform of Mathematics Instruction

1969 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-138
Author(s):  
Howard F. Fehr
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
First Report ◽  
International Mathematical ◽  
Public Instruction

For a number of years, the Association of Professors of Public Instruction (APMEP) has studied the problems posed by the evolution of the sciences, especially that aspect of education which concerns instruction in mathematics. Through the auspices of its Commission on Research and Reform, which has taken the initiative to bring things together, contacts have been made with professors of other disciplines, with researchers, with psychologists, and with engineers. The action of the APMEP is not unknown to the membership of the Ministerial Commission for Mathematics Instruction, headed by Professor Lichnerowicz, whose first report, published in March 1967, marked an important change in subsequent procedures.

International Mathematical Education: The development of the teaching of mathematics in France at the first and second degree levels

1965 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 637-641
Author(s):  
Lucienne Felix
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Mathematical Program ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
International Mathematical ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Modern Mathematics ◽  
Second Degree ◽  
Preparatory Mathematics

Bourbaki and “modern mathematics” originated in France. lt is natural, then, for the rest of the world to ask what effect they have had on the French secondary and preparatory mathematics instruction. Mlle Lucienne Felix is one of the most active leaders seeking reform of a traditional but rigorous mathematical program in the French public schools. In this article Mlle Felix gives a forthright account of the situation in France today.

scholarly journals First Report of Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus in Morocco

Plant Disease ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. 596-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Desbiez ◽  
H. Lecoq ◽  
S. Aboulama ◽  
M. Peterschmitt
Keyword(s):  
Important Change ◽  
Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay ◽  
Yellow Leaf ◽  
Vegetable Crops ◽  
Specific Primers ◽  
First Report ◽  
Large Populations ◽  
Healthy Control ◽  
Symptomless Plant ◽  
Beet Pseudo Yellows Virus

In October, 1999, severe yellowing symptoms were observed in a melon (Cucumis melo L.) crop grown under plastic tunnels in the region of Agadir, Morocco. Large populations of whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci) were noticed during the early stages of the crop. At harvest, leaf samples were collected from two symptomatic plants and one symptomless plant. A mature yellow leaf was assayed from each symptomatic plant and for one of these two plants a younger leaf exhibiting only yellow spots. Cucurbit aphid-borne yellows virus, which causes similar symptoms in melons, was not detected by double-antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay tests. Total RNA was extracted from fresh leaf tissues and submitted to reverse transcription and polymerase chain reaction with primers specific to two whitefly-transmissible viruses: Beet pseudo-yellows virus (BPYV) and Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus (CYSDV) (2). No amplification was obtained with BPYV-specific primers. In contrast, an expected 465-bp product was amplified in all samples from symptomatic plants with CYSDV-specific primers. No amplification was detected in samples from the symptomless plant nor from healthy control plants. B. tabaci-transmitted CYSDV has been reported in the Middle East, southwestern Europe, and North America (1,4). This is the first report of CYSDV in Morocco, and it follows the first report of another B. tabaci-transmitted virus, Tomato yellow leaf curl virus, in tomato (3), suggesting an important change in the viral pathosystem affecting vegetable crops in Morocco. References: (1) Kao et al. Plant Dis. 84:101, 2000. (2) Livieratos et al. Plant Pathol. 47:362, 1998. (3) Peterschmitt et al. Plant Dis. 83:1074, 1999. (4) Wisler et al. Plant Dis. 82:270, 1998.

2. On the Work of the International Commission on Mathematical Teaching

1912 ◽  
Vol 6 (97) ◽  
pp. 243-246
Keyword(s):  
General Meeting ◽  
International Commission ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
Mathematical Teaching ◽  
International Mathematical ◽  
The Subject

The few remarks that I propose to make on this subject will hardly deserve the title of a “paper.” You are doubtless aware of the existence of the International Commission on Mathematical Education. The Commission owes its origin to the distinguished American mathematician, Professor D. E. Smith. At the International Mathematical Congress at Rome three years ago Professor Smith proposed that a “commission” be formed to enquire into questions of teaching, this Commission to report to the next meeting of the Congress, at Cambridge, on August 22-28, 1912. There have been intermediate meetings on the teaching part of the subject, and one meeting was held last September at Milan. It was not a general meeting, being attended mainly by official delegates from different countries. I had the honour of being present there, and it may perhaps interest you if I describe very briefly the matters that were under discussion.

International Mathematical Education: Note on the First International Congress on Mathematical Education

1970 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 318-319
Author(s):  
Howard F. Fehr ◽  
Jerry P. Becker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Host Country ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
International Mathematical ◽  
Mathematics Educators

The First International Congress on Mathematical Education is now history. It was held in Lyon, France, August 24-30, 1969. Approximately 700 mathematics educators from 37 countries participated in this event. The United States was well represented, having approximately 100 participants. Only France, the host country, had a larger representation.

International Mathematical Education: The development of the teaching of mathematics in Soviet schools

1965 ◽  
Vol 58 (8) ◽  
pp. 715-719
Author(s):  
R. S. Cherkasov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
International Mathematical ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Opening Paragraph

When reading the article you will understand that the opening paragraph must be viewed against the background of the author's relation to his own government. The rest of the article is highly informative, enabling us to compare what has happened in Russia with what bas happened in the United States of America.—Howard F. Febr.

International Mathematical Education: Elitism and Excellence

1969 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 505-509
Author(s):  
Howard F. Fehr ◽  
Lord C. P. Snow
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
International Mathematical ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Mathematics And Science ◽  
Intellectual Climate

I thought of speaking about Science, Mathematics and the Imagination, but I have changed my mind. I fancy enough has been said on this kind of subject to last us for some time. I don't believe that many sentient educated people nowadays doubt that creative mathematics and science call for as high qualities of imagination as any human activity: if they do, they have no excuse. And I believe people are beginning to realise that creative science doesn't work as scientists used to pretend it did. Medawar's writings1 and James Watson's recent book2 have taught the simple lesson that, as a rule, scientists know the answer before they prove it. This is called the hypothetico-deductive method. All this is very interesting, but it is becoming part of the intellectual climate. So I have decided to say something on a more practical topic, where there are some decisions we may have to make—some of them quite soon. I am calling this topic Elitism and Excellence.

International Mathematical Education: Mathematics in the Schools of the U.S.S.R.

1969 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-239
Author(s):  
G. G. Masloya ◽  
A. I. Markushevitz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Mathematical ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
School Programs ◽  
Academic Plan ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

MUCH work has been done in the Soviet Union over the past years in improving school programs. A commission on the content of education, convened by the Academy of Sciences and Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the U.S.S.R., prepared a new academic plan for the high school and programs for all subjects, includiug mathematics. The chairman of the program commission in mathematics was academician A. N. Kolmogorov.

International Mathematical Education: The Czechoslovak National Mathematical Olympiads

1968 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-85
Author(s):  
Julius H. Hlavaty
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
National Level ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
East European ◽  
International Mathematical

SINCE 1950 every young hopeful future mathematician in a secondary school in Czechoslovakia, or even in elementary school, looks forward to the various rounds of the annual mathematical olympiad. He has hopes for valuable prizes (mostly books on mathematics)- but even more to the sheer glory of recognition (in the form of certificates) on a local, regional, or national level. If he is in the last year of a secondary school, he may even reach the International Olympiad conducted annually (since 1959) by the East European countries.

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