A History of Mathematics in the United States and Canada

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Zitarelli
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of

A History of Mathematics Education in the United States and Canada.

1971 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Herta T. Freitag ◽  
Phillip S. Jones ◽  
Arthur F. Coxford
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of Mathematics Education ◽  
History Of

Intellectual growth and understanding mathematics: implications for teaching

1972 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-282
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. Lovell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Widespread Interest

The thirty-second yearbook of the NCTM (Jones 1970) deals with the history of mathematics education in the United States and Canada. Scattered throughout the book are references to psychological and educational theories and their impact on mathematics education. The name of Piaget occurs on seven pages, and some of his books are named; but the volume does not spell out the precise ways in which Piaget's work is of value to the mathematics educator. Personally, I have been greatly influenced by his work, details of which have been published in a vast array of books and papers over almost fifty years, although it would be true to say that it is only in the last ten years that there has developed a widespread interest in his work in the United States. I believe that his position regarding the acquisition of certain kinds necesof new knowledge is of more value to the mathematics teacher than any other position at the moment, although I affirm with equal conviction that his theory does not cover a11 the facts and that one day it will be replaced or subsumed by a more allembracing one. Some of the strengths and inadequacies of his theory in relation to mathematics learning have been given by Lovell ([a] 1966) and Beilin (1971). Although it would be wrong for me to outline Piaget's cognitive-development system here, I must make six points that are the assumptions, so to speak, on which the remainder of my paper rests.

Capsule History of the NCTM

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Julius H. Hlavaty
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Council ◽  
History Of Mathematics Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The history of mathematics education in America is the story of a long and exciting adventure. It is the subject of a forthcoming NCTM Yearbook, A History of Mathematics Education in the United States and Canada. The following is a capsule account of the direct involvements and the tangential contacts of the National Council with that history during the past fifty years.

Review of A brief history of the United States.

1919 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 414-414
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of
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