Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dk4vv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-24T17:51:45.422Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Mathematics and Science: Friction or Fusion?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

D. A. Quadling*
Affiliation:
Cambridge Institute of Education, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2BX

Extract

For all that geography, and economics, and sociology,… are becoming more mathematical, the fact remains that in the secondary school the mathematics teacher has far more points of contact with his science colleagues than with any other. Historically and in current practice mathematics and science march together—mathematics offering the language and the generality, science furnishing the motivation and feeding the imagination. Both are concerned with the identification of patterns, and progress by putting them to use.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1971

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)