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English and French Teaching Methods Compared

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Jacques Devisme
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The aim of this article is to convey the impressions received by a French Professor of Mathematics on reading the book referred to in the title, and thus to throw some light on similarities and differences between methods of teaching in the two countries.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 21 , Issue 243 , May 1937 , pp. 123 - 134
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1937

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Page 123 of note * [The Mathematical Association owes a debt of thanks to Professor Devisme for this article, written at the request of the Editor of the Gazette. It was thought that a comparison of teaching methods and ideals at about Scholarship stage would be both interesting and fruitful. For a concrete basis to the comparison, a modern and widely-used textbook was desirable, and the appearance of a third impression of Advanced Trigonometry (C. V Durell and A. Robson) suggested that this book would exactly serve the purpose.]

Page 125 of note * Account must be taken of a difference in age of which we shall speak later. It should be noticed that the teaching for “Mathématiques Générales” given in the Faculties is more rapid than that for “Mathématiques Spéciales”, giving the mathematical ideas indispensable in the study of Physics.

Page 127 of note * It is usual in France to call theses “Series Entiéres”, which seems to me a defective terminology.