Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 20 Issue 4, June 1981
At the time of writing, your editor has just returned from attending the 59th Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in St. Louis. These meetings are always professionally rewarding and I would encourage you to plan to attend· the 60th Annual Meeting, which will be held in Toronto, April 14-17, 1982. This is the first NCTM Annual Meeting to be held outside of the United States.
THE PROBLEM CORNER IS A PROBLEM. Bill Bruce, co-editor of the Problem Corner, tells me that he has not received any solutions to the problems in this corner. We promised to publish students’ solutions, but we can’t if we don’t receive any. Please encourage your junior and senior high students to submit their solutions. If you are not giving the problems to your students, please take a minute to tell us why so that we can mend our ways. Problem 5 and a suggested solution to Problem 4 appear in this issue.
CALCULATORS. Alberta Education is preparing a document on calculators. This is scheduled for distribution to all schools before September. With this in mind, delta-K is publishing two articles on calculators in this issue.
Other articles in this issue deal with age problems for beginning algebra students (Bruce), per cent problems (Litwiller and Duncan), and an advisory examination (Trollope).
ACTIVITIES. Ideas have been reprinted from the Arithmetic Teacher which provide addition and subtraction practice with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. These ideas are graded for use with Grades 1 to 8.
George Cathcart
1 – 2
3
4 – 7
8
Forthcoming Mathematics Conferences
9 – 10
Issue No. 7
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Mathematics Achievement Test Results
Alberta Education
12
South West Regional Elects New Officers
13 – 14
1981 Alberta High School Prize Examination Results
Canadian Mathematical Society
15 – 20
Using Calculators in Pre-College Education: Third Annual State-of-the-Art Review*
Marilyn N. Suydam
21 – 28
SMTS Position Paper: Calculators (1980)
The Saskatchewan Mathematics Teachers’ Society
29
William J. Bruce
30- 33
Bonnie H. Litwiller and David R. Duncan
34 – 37
An Advisory Exam in Mathematics
Z. M. Trollope
38 – 39
edited by William J. Bruce and Roy Sinclair
40 – 47
Prepared by M. Bernadine Tabler and Marilyn Hall Jacobson
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