Monograph No. 2: September 1974
MATHEMATICS TEACHING – The State of the Art
Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association
49 – 56
The Last Twenty- Five Years — What Have We Learned?
DAVID W. WELLS
It was about 25 years ago that the movement t,o weigh the values in mathematics seriously began in this country. It has then that the works of promise for the teaching of the subject began .to appear. It was only a little later that the textbooks first attacked successfully the unreal topics and problems of the past and set a standard for the real ones for the present and the future. Since the movement. there has been a veritable revolution in the subject matter, in its arrangement, in the spirit with which it is presented and in the textbooks in which the work is set forth.