Max Beberman and Herbert E. Vaughan. High school mathematics. Course 2. Plane geometry with appendices on logic and solid geometry. D. C. Heath and Company, Boston, Englewood, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas, London, and Toronto, 1965, xi + 584 pp. - Max Beberman and Herbert E. Vaughan. High school mathematics. Course 2. Plane geometry with appendices on logic and solid geometry. Teacher's edition. D. C. Heath and Company, Boston, Englewood, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas, London, and Toronto, 1965, 608 pp.

1966 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 672-673
Author(s):  
Theodore Hailperin
2009 ◽  
Vol 102 (8) ◽  
pp. 568-570
Author(s):  
Robert Reys ◽  
Rustin Reys

High schools are requiring students to complete more years of mathematics in order to graduate (Reys et al. 2007). This requirement raises several questions for schools, teachers, students, and parents. In particular, what mathematics should students study, and how should that mathematics be organized? High school mathematics programs today use two different mathematics course sequences. One sequence focuses each course on a specific subject (algebra, geometry, algebra, or precalculus), while the other integrates mathematical strands throughout each course. Choosing between subject-based and integrated course sequences stimulates discussions about-and often controversy over—which organizational choice is best and for whom.


1993 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 442-448
Author(s):  
Sue Jackson Barnes

Many high school mathematics students unrealistically believe that if they can just finish one more general mathematics course, they will never again have to face mathematics. They realize that they must know how to write checks and are quite eager to learn about managing a checking account. Other than this banking activity, they are quite sure that only engineers and mathematics teachers use mathematics on a daily basis. When asked about such items as taxes and insurance, the stock answer is, “Oh, I'll just let my accountant take care of things like that!”


1969 ◽  
Vol 53 (384) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Matthews ◽  
Max Beberman ◽  
Herbert E. Vaughan

Author(s):  
Mohammad Mazharul Islam ◽  
Asma Al-Ghassani ◽  
Ahmed Y.S. Al-Hadhrami

Although the mathematics foundation program was introduced in Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) half a decade ago, there has been no evaluation or assessment of the program. The aim of this study was to evaluate the students’ performance in the Mathematics foundation course in SQU and to examine the predictive value of  a student’s high school performance for success in the math foundation course. The study considered a sample of 551 students who took the math course (MATH2107) during 2014 Spring semester. More than 95% of the students were admitted to SQU with a high school score of 80 and above.  The analysis revealed that, in general, female students were admitted to SQU with a significantly higher average high school score than the male students. The findings indicate a very unsatisfactory performance of the students in the mathematics foundation course as the mean GPA was 1.66 and more than half (59%) of the students obtained a GPA less than 2 (i.e. below grade C), of which 14% failed and 35% obtained grade D. Female students outperformed male students in the mathematics course. High school mathematics performance, gender and cohort of students were identified as significant predictors of success in the mathematics foundation course.  To increase the success rate of the mathematics course, the high school curriculum needs to be aligned with the University standards and the admission authority should continue to give more attention to high school mathematics scores along with overall high school performance while making admission decisions for the College of Science in SQU.


1967 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 492-503
Author(s):  
O. Robert Brown

The UICSM Mathematics Project has long been concerned with the mathematics curriculum in today's secondary schools. Two areas of curriculum work were joined in producing the programmed solid geometry text under discussion. The content was developed from an Appendix of High School Mathematics, Unit 9 (UICSM, 1962) and an earlier UICSM unit on topics from solid geometry. The instructional procedure reflected findings of the UICSM Programmed Instruction Project (Brown, 1962 and 1964).


1981 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-186
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Doebling

Since few things interest young people as much as automobiles, a unit on buying one creates great enthusiasm. Such a unit has been a repeated success in a consumer mathematics course for eleventh- and twelth-grade students who have taken at least one previous high school mathematics course. Because of the wide variety of abilities in a class, materials should be highly adaptable.


1924 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 495-499
Author(s):  
Lillis Price

In presenting the changes in subject matter and method needed to fit different ability groups in high school mathematics, I am compelled to limit my discussion to the work of the first two years as carried on in the majority of schools: namely, freshman algebra and plane geometry. My experience with ability groups limits me to this field and since a large number of high schools make two years of mathematics required for graduation, it is the field where different ability groups are most needed and the field in which I feel you would be most interested.


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