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The Teaching of Mathematics in English Public Schools for Boys*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

C. Godfrey
C. Godfrey*
Affiliation:
R.N. College, Osborne.
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Extract

In the first place, the present paper refers to conditions prevailing in England only, to the exclusion of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Secondly, the term " public school" has, in England, a rather special meaning. A public school is generally understood to be an endowed secondary school of fair size, educating boys of the upper and middle classes, independent of state control except in so far as its income is supplemented from public funds. Public schools may be either boarding schools or day schools, but most of them belong to the former category.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 4 , Issue 71 , May 1908 , pp. 250 - 259
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1908

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Footnotes

*

Paper read before the International Congress of Mathematicians, held at Rome in April, 1908, by Mr. C. Godfrey, Headmaster of the R.N. College, Osborne; formerly Senior Mathematical Master at Winchester College.

References

page 251 note * In some cases a scholarship can be won for a combination (1) of mathematics and some physical science, (2) of classics and history.

page 256 note * This is the “Geometrie Descriptive” of Monge, and must not be confounded with the descriptive or non-metrical geometry of Chasles and other writers.