The Recitation in Mathematics

1924 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 459-470
Author(s):  
Edith Irene Atkin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Homogeneous Groups

Many movements in education are claiming the attention of teachers of mathematics. Some teachers and administrators would make all high school mathematics elective, some are teaching some form of general mathematics, some are emphasizing standardized tests, some have instituted supervised study or instruction by homogeneous groups, and others are working on the content of courses in mathematics for both the junior and the senior high schools. These different movements all indicate an earnest desire on the part of their exponents to help in the solution of educational problems, and every progressive teacher is vitaily interested in the results, either from the standpoint of a participator or an observer.

Sound Off!: Two High School Mathematics Curricular Paths—Which One to Take?

2009 ◽  
Vol 102 (8) ◽  
pp. 568-570
Author(s):  
Robert Reys ◽  
Rustin Reys
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
The Other ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Specific Subject ◽  
Course Sequences ◽  
Organizational Choice ◽  
Mathematics Course

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.

Some Psychological Phases of Student Success in High School Mathematics

1937 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 322-325
Author(s):  
J. Eli Allen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Student Success ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics

In Mathematics just as in any other field of learning, there is today very wide diversity of achievement by the boys and girls in our high schools. This paper is an effort to indicate some of the situations that condition pupils for successful learning of mathematics.

Curriculum Trends in High School Mathematics

1948 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-69
Author(s):  
E. R. Breslich
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
College Instructors ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Curriculum Trends

The problem of selecting and organizing instructional materials for high school pupils is as old as the high schools. When these schools came into existence the courses in algebra and geometry then offered in the colleges were moved downward into the lower schools. Unfortunately these subjects had been organized by college instructors for college students and were in no sense planned to meet the needs and abilities of high school pupils. It was to be expected, therefore, that they would need to undergo considerable reconstruction. To the solution of this problem the mathematics teachers of the nineteenth century have devoted a great deal of time and effort.

Students Become Math-Minded through league Influence

1971 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-246
Author(s):  
Martha Ann McCormick
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
School Level ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
High School Level ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

Can a college stimulate interest in mathematics in the high schools of its area? Can it, encourage more effective teaching at the high school level? Can it create rapport between the high school mathematics teachers and the college mathematics staff? We at Missouri Southern College believe the answer is YES ! We feel the MSC Math League has started us well on the road to achievement of these goals.

Connecting Research to Teaching: Block Scheduling and High School Mathematics Instruction

1996 ◽  
Vol 89 (9) ◽  
pp. 758-768
Author(s):  
Steven L. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Block Scheduling ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Block Schedules

Block scheduling is not a new phenomenon. It has been widely used in British Columbia, Ontario, and Alberta since the 1970s. In the United States, block schedules have become increasingly popular throughout the 1990s, and currently they are spreading to high schools in many regions.

Changes in Subject Matter and Method to Fit Different Ability Groups in Mathematics

1924 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 495-499
Author(s):  
Lillis Price
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Plane Geometry ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Ability Groups

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.

High School Mathematics Teachers in the United States

1931 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 409-413
Author(s):  
Earl W. Anderson ◽  
R. H. Eliassen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Specific Subject ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

Prospective Teachers and their advisers are often searching for information regarding the extent to which a specific subject is taught in high schools, the degree to which it is combined with other subjects, and what those other subjects are. It was the purpose or this study to bring together such reported findings relative to the teaching of mathematics.

Elementary school and high school mathematics for the colleges?

1958 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-17
Author(s):  
M. F. Smiley
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
The Past

Today's pressure on college enrollments has forced many colleges to adjust courses much as high schools have done in the past. Can This He Justified?

Current Practice in Junior High School Mathematics

1926 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
Edward H. Worthington
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Secondary School Principals ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Junior High Schools ◽  
National Committee ◽  
High School Mathematics

Since the report of the National Committee on Mathematical Requirements, under the auspices of the Mathematical Association of America, made its appearance we have been more certain of the content of Junior High School Mathematics, although the committee gave no order of topics with specific time allotments of each. A question which arose in my mind last spring was, “What are the Junior High Schools throughout the country definitely teaching in Mathematics?” I, accordingly, wrote to Dr. Glass, of the State Department of Pennsylvania, for a list of twenty-five of the best Junior High Schools in Pennsylvania, exclusive of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was excluded as most of the members of my class were already teaching in Philadelphia and were acquainted with the Philadelphia course of study. We received a directory of the Junior High Schools of Pennsylvania with twenty-five of the best checked by Dr. Glass. Books on Junior High Schools were then scanned for names of Junior High Schools, but with little success as they referred mainly to large school systems and we desired to get in touch with the mathematics departments. We found in the ninth year book of the National Association of Secondary-School Principals, in the directory of members, about forty-five names of Junior High Schools throughout the country.

High School Mathematics Clubs

1925 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 341-363
Author(s):  
Zulu Reed
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Minimum Requirement ◽  
Class Room ◽  
Necessary Evil

In most of our high schools our courses of study are too crowded with formal work to permit our following, in the class room, interesting by-ways which touch our paths. Such is the case in mathematics. It is largely because of the failure of teachers to provide opportunity for exploring these mysterious by-ways that many high school pupils regard mathematics as a necessary evil, as something almost entirely apart from every day life, as an affliction to be escaped as soon as the minimum requirement has been met. But work that has been considered drudgery may become a pleasurable pastime with the proper incentive. Some one has fittingly said that the greatest problem to be solved by the mathematics teacher today is the problem of making mathematics interesting to the pupil. The mathematics club offers a means of helping to solve this problem.

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