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The Training of Teachers of Mathematics to Technical Students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

W. G. Bickley
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[The following memorandum, prepared by Dr. Bickley, and adopted after slight modification by the Technical Sub-Committee of the Teaching Committee, has been forwarded to the Board of Education for consideration by their committee on the training of teachers.]

The recruitment of suitable teachers of ancillary subjects in technical schools and colleges was often difficult before the war, and even if the ideas of the Spens report did not imply a considerable increase in demand, it is time that this supply problem was faced. In the technical subjects themselves the problem is not so acute; the teacher of a branch of engineering is teaching the subject very much as he was taught it, to students whose outlook is very similar to his own. Teachers of physics or chemistry to the same students, although not in quite such a happy position, have certainly in their own studies met with frequent practical applications of their subject, and will usually be entirely sympathetic towards this aspect. With the majority of the teachers of mathematics, however, the position is very different.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 27 , Issue 275 , July 1943 , pp. 127 - 129
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1943 

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Page 128 of note * In this connection, the experiment of Brown University, directed in the first instance towards the researchers, but evoking an unanticipated additional response from the teachers, where the tentative vacation scheme has now blossomed into full-time sessional courses in Applied Mechanics, is notable.

Page 128 of note † For a case intermediate between the general and the special local, see the concluding section of a memorandum on The Post-War Training of Physicists issued by the Institute of Physics.

Page 128 of note ‡ E.g. in institutions preparing for the London B.Sc. (Eng.) examination, to study say two of the Part I subjects; similarly elsewhere.