From Counting to Calculating
From Counting to Calculating, part of the Mathematics for the Majority series produced by The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics, is aimed at expanding teachers’ knowledge about the use of number in calculations in order to pass on this understanding to higher secondary students within their lessons. This…
Number Appreciation
Number Appreciation, part of the Mathematics for the Majority series produced by The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics, is aimed at expanding teachers’ knowledge about the number system in order to pass on this understanding to higher secondary students within their lessons. This book compliments From…
Mathematics From Outdoors
Mathematics From Outdoors, part of the Mathematics for the Majority series produced by The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics, is aimed at expanding teachers’ knowledge and is designed to help teachers to develop classroom activities that will interest students and enable them to link the mathematics they…
Machines, Mechanisms and Mathematics
Machines, Mechanisms and Mathematics, part of the Mathematics for the Majority series produced by The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics, is aimed at expanding teachers’ knowledge, and is written in the belief that much of mathematics has been developed to solve practical problems. Many practical applications…
Luck and Judgement
Luck and Judgement, part of the Mathematics for the Majority series produced by The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics, is aimed at expanding teachers’ knowledge, concentrating upon a practical approach to the teaching of probability and statistics. The book has two parts, the first concentrating upon…
Crossing Subject Boundaries
Crossing Subject Boundaries, part of the Mathematics for the Majority series produced by The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics, is a book aimed at teachers, encouraging collaboration across different subject areas. Each chapter focuses upon a different area of the curriculum and describes aspects of mathematics…
The Mathematics Curriculum: from Graphs to Calculus
This book first published in 1977 is about graphs, their drawing, their interpretation, their development and their use. It discusses the teaching of graphs from their early introduction and as far as the beginnings of integral and differential calculus. The book also places the teaching of graphs in an historical context as it reviews…
The Continuing Mathematics Project: a Case Study
This report gives a fairly full account of the origins and life of the Continuing Mathematics Project (CMP), together with details of what materials were produced and how it was developed and tested in schools. In addition to a discussion of the way in which a variety of institutions used the materials, four tutors contributed a…
Assignment Systems
This Schools Council publication addresses assignment cards and how they can play an important part in mathematics teaching. The book discusses methods of preparing them and gives numerous examples. Topics as diverse as the Binary system, punched card matrices, vectors and topology feature as do geometrical and statistical assignments.…
Children Learning Mathematics - a Teacher's Guide to Recent Research
The Low Attainers in Mathematics Project has two aims; to bring to the notice of teachers the current knowledge about learning processes in mathematics which resulted in the writing of this book and to provide information to teachers and advisers about the ways in which primary, middle and secondary schools deal with students who…
The Mathematics Curriculum: Counting and Configurations
This Mathematics Curriculum book, first published in 1978, examines 'combinatorics', a new term at the time that needed definition. Two aspects were considered, the first being permutations and combinations and the second being a possible set-up (or configuration) and asking if examples of such configurations exist and…
The Mathematics Curriculum: Mathematics Across the Curriculum
This Mathematics Curriculum book, first published in 1977, intended to act as an aid and catalyst in co-operation between teachers of mathematics and teachers of other subjects which use mathematics. It looks at areas of applied mathematics that demonstrate its usefulness and are of genuine interest to other subject areas. A knowledge…
The Mathematics Curriculum: Algebra
This Mathematics Curriculum book, first published in 1978, begins by giving a short account of what 'algebra' means, to inform those readers whose mathematical training did not take in the most recently included topics of school syllabuses, and to refresh the memories of those who were exposed to these ideas. Objectives…
The Mathematics Curriculum: Geometry
This Mathematics Curriculum book, first published in 1977, put the teaching of geometry in the historical context of the time. In particular, the author sets out to show that the introduction of modern transformation geometry does not rule out the teaching of the more traditional Euclidean-type proofs, and indicates some of the many…
The Mathematics Curriculum: Number
This Mathematics Curriculum book was first published in 1978 in a response to the many changes in the mathematics curriculum and resources available. It was intended to help teachers make sense of the changes and choose appropriate resources. The book provides a historical context for mathematics education at the time as it reviews…