Fifth Annual Report of the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching

Abstract

THE Association, it may be remarked, is almost coeval with this journal, for it was in the early numbers of NATURE that a correspondence was started on the subject of Geometrical Teaching. This resulted, as our readers are aware, in the formation of the Association. After four years of continuous work, two of which have been devoted to the difficult subject of Proportion (as we learn from the Report), the Syllabus of Plane Geometry is now complete; and, after a few verbal alterations possibly have been made, it will be forwarded for criticism to the Committee (on Geometrical Teaching) of the British Association and to other mathematical authorities. The object, we further learn, is, if possible, to get the sanction of the British Association; and this backing the opinion of the large number of mathematical teachers who now form the Association, will, it is hoped, lead the examining bodies of the country to act with perfect impartiality in considering the merits of those pupils who have been trained in accordance with the methods of the Syllabus as contrasted with the favourers of Euclid.

Fifth Annual Report of the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching.

(January 1875.)