Abstract

In 1960 the Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics, the major group influencing the modernization of college mathematics, published their recommendations for the mathematics preparation of elementary school teachers of mathematics.1, 2 Subsequently, statewide conferences for mathematics educators from various educational institutions were conducted under the auspices of the Committee on Undergraduate Programs in Mathematics. In these meetings were discussed the problems of adequately training elementary school teachers of mathematics and possible avenues to an improved mathematics preparatory program. One of the statements issued at each of these meetings concerned the importance of each educational institution's critically examining its own mathematics program for elementary school teachers.

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