Unified Mathematics in Secondary Schools

The reform movement in mathematics which had its beginning in England, France and Germany has been felt in this country for more than twenty years, and the end is not yet. In 1901 Professor J. Perry delivered his now famous address on the teaching of mathematics before a congress of mathematicians in Glasgow. Professor Perry was then in charge of certain apprenticeship schools in London. He felt that the mathematics which the students in these schools had studied did not function in their later work. Consequently there must be something wrong with the aim, content, and method of the traditional instruction in mathematics. The movement in this country was first started among college men by Professor E. H. Moore of the University of Chicago. In 1903 in order to spread the doctrine among classroom teachers, associations of mathematics teachers were formed in various sections of the United States and mathematical magazines were established.