College Preparatory Mathematics: Preparation for What?

1968 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-49
Author(s):  
Charles R. Eilber
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
College Preparatory ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Major Aspect ◽  
The Future ◽  
College Preparatory Mathematics ◽  
Mathematics Preparation ◽  
Preparatory Mathematics

DESPITE the great amount of attention focused on the secondary school mathematics curriculum in recent years, there remains a major aspect of the teaching of college preparatory mathematics which has been consistently overlooked. While there seems to be little question that the content and approach of the modern curricula are significant and relevant to the needs and purposes of the future mathematician, engineer, physicist, and statistician, the relevance of the secondary school college preparatory mathematics curriculum to the lives of the future historian, musician, teacher of English, or any articulate layman is doubtful.

Some Suggestions for Courses in Mathematics for Non-College Preparatory Students

1919 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 165-171
Author(s):  
Clarence E. Paddock ◽  
Harold B. Garland ◽  
Charles E. Haigler ◽  
Elmer Case ◽  
Thomas G. Rees
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
College Preparatory ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
College Preparatory Mathematics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
College Preparatory Students ◽  
Life Work ◽  
Preparatory Mathematics

The question of college preparatory mathematics has been so long under discussion in all its aspects that it would appear that special attention is due the pupil who does not expect to go to college, and for whom the secondary institution is the finishing school. Valuable as are the standard courses in mathematics as given in most high schools, other material can unquestionably be substituted for at least a part of them which will be of more immediate practical use to the pupil who expects to take up his life work immediately after leaving the high or other secondary school. It is manifestly impossible to suggest courses which will be applicable to all schools, or even to all schools of a given type, due to widely varying local conditions as well as to great differences in the caliber and future prospects of the pupils. The committee has spent much time and thought upon the subject and finds it difficult to recommend a complete definite course for any school, preferring rather to offer suggestions which may be the means of inspiring our schools to improve present courses or to construct practical and useful ones for our boys and girls.

Revision of College Preparatory Mathematics

1926 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 321-328
Author(s):  
Marie Gugle
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
General Public ◽  
College Preparatory ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Variable Quantity ◽  
College Preparatory Mathematics ◽  
Preparatory Mathematics

College entrance mathematics is a variable quantity; until recently each college set its own entrance requirements. As President Butler said, they “were going their several ways with sublime unconcern for the policies of other colleges, for the needs of secondary schools, or for the general public interests…. No secondary school could adjust its work and its program to their requirements.”

A bibliography on the changing curriculum in secondary school mathematics

1964 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-159
Author(s):  
Carol V. McCamman ◽  
Jane M. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics

Some important articles and books concerning the changing mathematics curriculum

Geodesic Domes in The Classroom

1978 ◽  
Vol 71 (7) ◽  
pp. 578-581
Author(s):  
Charles Lund
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Mathematics Classrooms ◽  
Geodesic Domes ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller has created a myriad of ideas that are highly appropriate for study at various points in the mathematics curriculum. This article describes some practical, hands-on ways in which Fuller's ideas about geodesic domes are being used in the secondary school mathematics classrooms of the St. Paul public schools.

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