The Training of Mathematics Teachers

Abstract

[When the activities of the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics were suspended by the War, an enquiry into the training of school teachers was in progress, and when the Central Committee of the Commission decided that whole-hearted cooperation was again possible, advantage was naturally taken of the fact that there was interrupted work to be resumed. Some of the participating Sub-Commissions had already presented reports; to the others a revised version of the questionnaire on which reports were to be based was issued. The reports were considered by Prof. Gino Loria, the Italian mathematician and historian, whom we are proud to number among the honorary members of our own Association, and he presented at the Zürich Congress a comprehensive survey of the whole subject.Communication with the United Kingdom was made through Prof. E. H. Neville—who has since been offered a seat on the Central Committee—and the following Report was compiled for the Commission by the Board of Education, for whose cooperation, as willing as it was indispensable, the Commission is most thankful.]