A Statistical Study in Correlation of Efficiency in Secondary Mathematics and Efficiency in other High School Branches

1919 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-176
Author(s):  
Nelle L. Ingels
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Statistical Study ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Similar Investigation ◽  
The University

It is the purpose of this paper to record the results obtained from an investigation concerning the correlation of efficiency— (1) in the study of mathematics and history, (2) in the study of mathematics and foreign language, and (3) in the study of history and foreign language. A similar investigation was made several years ago by Prof. H. L. Rietz and Miss Imogene Shade, “On the Correlation of Efficiency in Mathematics and Efficiency in Other Branches,” in the University of Illinois.*

Arithmetic with Frames

1957 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
_ _
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
School Students ◽  
Project Staff ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
The University

The project of the university of Illinois Committee on school Mathematics is primarily concerned with students in grades nine through twelve. Frequently, the Project staff is asked if its work with high school students has implications for students in earlier grades, that is, if in attempting to work out better ways of presenting material to high school students, ideas have occurred for better ways to present mathematics to elementary school students.

News Notes

1934 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-105
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Harmon
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Achievement Testing ◽  
Mathematics Section ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The University ◽  
Science And Mathematics Teachers

The mathematics Section of The Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers held its annual meeting at the Congress Hotel in Chlcago on Friday December 1, 1933, with Mr. Maurice L. Hartung of the University High School of Madison, Wisconsin presiding. The following program was given: Appointment of Nominating Committee; “Achievement Testing in Secondary Mathematics,” H. T. Lundholm, The Blake School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; “Dimensionality,” Prof. E. P. Lane, University of Chlcago; “Geometry's Tribute to Tradition,” Dr. Elizabeth B. Cowley, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; General Discussion; Election of Officers.

Functions

1967 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 657-664
Author(s):  
Edward Esty
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
The University

Some of the recent elementary school arithmetic textbooks introduce functions, a topic formerly appearing no earlier than in high school. The University of Illinois Arithmetic Project has long used functions (called “jumping rules” by the Project) in classes for elementary school children.

News and Notes

1921 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 401-404
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
The University

W. D. Reeve, formerly head of the department of mathematics in the University of Minnesota High School, has been elected to the principalship of the school. Mr. Reeve will continue to give the professional courses in the School of Education on the teaching of secondary mathematics.

Tips for Beginners: Building an electrical device for use in teaching logic

1962 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-206
Author(s):  
Richard P. Giles
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Mathematical Concept ◽  
Truth Table ◽  
Symbolic Logic ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Electrical Device ◽  
School Classroom ◽  
High School Classroom ◽  
The University

In a mathematics course designed for prospective teachers at the University of Illinois, the students were required to design and build a project that could be used in a high-school classroom to illustrate or demonstrate some mathematical concept. Since earlier in the semester we had discussed the growing emphasis that is being given in high schools to the study of symbolic logic, I decided to build an electrical device that would graphically represent the truth table and the various operations which can be performed on propositions.

Changing Objectives in the Teaching of Algebra and Trigonometry in the Senior High School

1946 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 314-319
Author(s):  
Benjamin Braverman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Instructional Material ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Elementary Algebra ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Recent Origin ◽  
Algebraic Symbolism

That considerable changes have taken place in the point of view governing the teaching of secondary mathematics, as well as in the content of the instructional material and its pedagogic presentation is quite obvious to any one who takes the trouble to compare a text in secondary mathematics published, let us say, in 1915 with one of more recent origin. It was forcibly brought home to me at the beginning of the present semester when I offered our department lesson-by-lesson syllabus in elementary algebra to a foreign language teacher who had been assigned to teach that subject in my department. He studied the first few pages with considerable surprise. These pages of the syllabus deal with algebraic symbolism and the formula. “What,” he exclaimed, “no x's, y's, and z's.” He felt a little relieved when I assured him that a little of that would come later, but in a much more modified form than he had been exposed to.

Minimum Mathematical Needs of Prospective Students in a College of Engineering

1952 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-93
Author(s):  
Kenneth B. Henderson ◽  
Kern Dickman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Course Content ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
The University ◽  
High School Mathematics Teachers

There are several reasons why some students enter a college of engineering lacking adequate preparation in mathematics. One is that the mathematical needs of such students have not been clearly defined. It seems to be an auspicious hypothesis to assume that, if these needs are identified in some specificity and high school mathematics teachers apprized of them, students can be better prepared for collegiate work. Acting on this hypothesis, a study was conducted to discover the minimum mathematical needs of students who expect to enter the College of Engineering of the University of Illinois. Since the curricula and course content of most colleges of engineering tend to be similar, it is assumed that, in the absence of other data, these needs will serve very well to indicate “what it takes” in most colleges of engineering.

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