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Cards, Modules and Kits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Geoffrey Matthews
Geoffrey Matthews*
Affiliation:
Centre for Science Education, Chelsea College, Bridges Place, London, S. W.6
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Most people agree that some sort of revolution has taken place in this country during the past decade in the teaching of school mathematics. But it has been a very British revolution, and therefore confusing. No Minister or Inspector General has issued a new syllabus to be adopted by all schools with effect from midnight 31st December 1969/1st January 1970; even the British equivalent of the foreign Ministries, the examination boards, have come out in a rash of syllabuses A, B, C, D,…, modes I, II, III and given their blessing to special papers by the S.M.P., M.M.E., M.E.I., C.S.M., …, The bewildered foreigner equates U.K. with Nuffield, Biggs, Southampton, Exeter, Leicestershire, Brianthwaites, Skempproject, Schools Council, Blackpaper, according to which he has heard of first or whom he has met last.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 54 , Issue 388 , May 1970 , pp. 131 - 138
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1970

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References

1. Mathematics Projects in British Secondary Schools, published by G. Bell & Son Ltd. for the Mathematical Association (1968).Google Scholar
2.Two sets of such cards for 11 to 13-year-olds, the “Green Problems and the “Red Problems” have been produced by Chambers and Murray for the Nuffield Mathematics Project, together with solutions and commentaries for the teachers. A third set is undergoing trials. Assignment Systems published by Chatto & Windus for the Schools Council “Mathematics for the Majority” project gives many ideas for pupils from 13 to 16.Google Scholar