Secondary School Mathematics in Great Britain and the United States

1951 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 385-394
Author(s):  
William S. Brace
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Educational Methods ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
American Schools

I am very conscious of the honor done to me and to the teachers of Britain by your president in asking me to address you. My qualifications for talking about American schools and educational methods are very slight indeed compared with (hose of many of you here today, so I am quite sure that it is not on those grounds that I am being asked to speak to you. Perhaps it is that someone is a little suspicious of the report that I am going to curry baek to England, and is contemplating “bumping me off” if I haven't formed satisfactory impressions of this beautiful state of yours! For my own safety, then, I will say at once that I think that Colorado is one of the most beautiful places in the world, that the people of Colorado are among the most hospitable in the world, and that the schools of Denver, which are the only Colorado schools that I know much about, are among the best in the world.

Text of Resolution Which Entered the United States into World War

1917 ◽  
Vol 85 (17) ◽  
pp. 455-456
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
German Government ◽  
The People ◽  
Successful Termination ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

The following is the text of the resolutions which officially entered the United States into the world war:— “Whereas the imperial German government has committed repeated acts of war against the government and the people of the United States of America; therefore be it “Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, that the state of war between the United States and the imperial German government, which has thus been thrust upon the United States, is hereby formally declared; and that the President be and he is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the government to carry on war against the imperial German government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.”

Reye Study Criticized

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-394
Author(s):  
JAMES P. ORLOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Reye Syndrome ◽  
Original Series ◽  
The World

In Reply.— I appreciate Dr Hall's thoughtful and thorough critique of our article. I will address each of her points to show that our conclusions are just as logical and based on as much scientific data as her alternate interpretations. First, Reye syndrome should be the same disease in Australia (and anywhere else in the world) as it is in the United States. As Hall points out, our series1 is remarkably similar not only to the original series of Reye et al2 but also to her own series in Great Britain,3 studies from Asia,4 a study from Ireland,5 a recent study from Spain,6 a report from France,7 and a recent study from West Germany.8

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 229-236
Author(s):  
Andrew Glazzard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle

‘You will be amused to hear that I am at work upon a Sherlock Holmes story. So the old dog returns to his vomit.’1 Arthur Conan Doyle to Herbert Greenhough Smith Sherlock Holmes, who died in Switzerland in May 1891, returned to the world on 23 October 1899. The location for his rebirth was, somewhat surprisingly, the Star Theatre in Buffalo, New York. Early the following month, Holmes moved to New York where he could be found in Manhattan’s Garrick Theatre on 236 separate occasions, before making his way across the United States. In September 1901, Holmes went back to Great Britain, arriving (like so many travellers from the US) at Liverpool, before reaching London on 9 September 1901. He was so much in demand that on 1 February 1902 he received an audience with King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. In 1902 he was again in New York, was seen travelling across northern England in 1903, and for the next thirty years popped up repeatedly in various American towns and cities....

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
David L. Brody
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Brain Injuries ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Providers ◽  
Post Concussion Syndrome ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Taking Care

This manual is for everyone who treats people with concussion. There are more than 3 million brain injuries each year in the United States and millions more around the world. Most of these injuries are concussions. After concussion, 30% or maybe even more can have prolonged symptoms and deficits. Much of this manual is written for the people who take care of the 30%. There is not one specific “post-concussion syndrome.” Instead, there are many post-concussive paths, and this manual is written to help those who are tasked with figuring this out, one patient at a time. This manual is about pragmatic approaches to taking care of patients in the absence of true scientific evidence. This manual is written to be used “on the fly,” right now, without a lot of prior studying or memorization. This manual is meant to supplement, not replace, the knowledge and judgment of medical providers caring for concussion patients.

TERRORISM AS THREAT TO SECURITY OF CONTEMPORARY WORLD. SELECTED ASPECTS

2012 ◽  
Vol 166 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Zbigniew KUŹNIAR ◽  
Artur FRONCZYK
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
International Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
Methods Of Operation ◽  
Religious Terrorism

The article includes various definitions of terrorism, and the motives and methods of operation in terrorism in a broad sense. The article describes secular and religious terrorism with its common features and differences. In the article terrorism is presented as currently the biggest threat to international security. The authors describe some methods of carrying out terrorist attacks in the world, particularly in the United States and Great Britain.

Integrity Testing in Poland — Issues, Experience and Practical Comments

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Piotr Hac
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Integrity Testing ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Integrity Tests ◽  
Similar Solutions

The aim of this article is to present a subject not widely known in Poland: the tool known as Integrity Testing that is in place in several countries of the world (including countries in Europe). It is used to fight corruption and irregularities in the functioning of public institutions and means the possibility of anti-corruption authorities creating a false corruption situation in order to verify an officer’s behaviour. The motives for the inception of the procedure, its assumptions and the basic conditions of use are presented,and the terminology used is also explained. It shows the positive, preventive aspects of the use of tests and the need for a professional approach to these on the part of the people implementing and performing them. For the purposes of this article the tests described have been divided into four main groups and the criteria adopted have been explained. A comparative analysis of integrity testing as used by institutions in the United States, Australia, Great Britain, Romania and the Czech Republic is also carried out, specifying the key differences between these systems, including how to implement procedures and the possible use of the results. Specific figures are given concerning the number of tests carried out in some countries and their effectiveness. The assumptions used in integrity tests are also compared to current similar solutions in the anti-corruption law operating in the Polish police (Article 19 of the Police Act). Also outlined are the main problems requiring a response before any possible start of work on the implementation of integrity tests in Poland. At the same time it is noted that in the years 2007–2008 the Polish Police worked on a similar legal solution, but ultimately this was not accepted. The article is based on the author’s personal knowledge and experience resulting in a highly pragmatic picture of the issues presented.

The Organization, The Goals, and Some Activities of The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

1973 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 476-480
Author(s):  
H. Vernon Price
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Council ◽  
The World ◽  
The French Revolution

The great watchword of the French Revolution was Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Although a great oversimplification, it has been said that France exemplifies liberty, Great Britain equality, and the United States fraternity. Without attempting to apportion these virtues among the nations of the world, I should like to dwell for a few moments on fraternity as it applies in the United States to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, I believe it is in this domain that we have developed into the largest mathematical organization in the world and—we should like to think—one of the most influential.

Promising Research: The World's Largest Math Event: Promoting Mathematical Thinking

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 430-432
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Brahier ◽  
Melfried Olson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Real World ◽  
Mathematical Thinking ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
The World

The Great Sphinx in Egypt is about 73.2 m (240 ft.) long, including the paws, which are each 15.3 m (50 ft.) long. Would one of its paws fit in a typical classroom? Would it fit in the school hallway? If the 90 800 kg (200 000 lbs.) of copper sheeting that make up the Statue of Liberty were melted down into pennies, how many pennies could be produced? How high would the pennies stand if they were stacked on one another? In which city and state would you find the world's largest ball of twine? Where would you find the world's largest catsup bottle? Such questions were the focus of the World's Largest Math Event 4— Landmarks: Seeing the World by Numbers— in April 1998. All over the United States and throughout the world, tens of thousands of students, from kindergarten through college, participated in the event. With the emphasis that the NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989) places on having students use real-world phenomena as a context for the study of mathematics, the World's Largest Math Event is a popular program.

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