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Thoughts on the Training of the Mathematics Teacher*
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A Presidential Address given to the Leicester and County Branch of the Association on Friday, March 12th, 1954.
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page no 20 note † Reported in the Times Educational Supplement, January 8th, 1954.
page no 21 note * See, for example, an article by Lear Caton, C. T. “A Fresh Approach to the Mathematical Curriculum in Schools” Mathematical Gazette, July 1945.Google Scholar
page no 21 note † Secondary Education. A Report of the Advisory Council on Education in Scotland. H.M.S.O. 1947 P 92. Quotation by kind permission of H.M. Stationery Office.
page no 24 note * Fundamental Concepts of Algebra and Geometry, J. W Young. Lecture II.
page no 24 note † The college was a Church Training College.
page no 25 note * If we take parallels to be lines which never meet, as is more usual in non-euclidean geometries, we have an infinity of lines through A parallel to AB.
page no 25 note † Taken from Fundamentals of Mathematics, Richardson, M., pp. 85–7, (1941), by kind permission of the Macmillan Co., New York.Google Scholar The calculus of relations was first studied by Augustus De Morgan and subsequently by Peirce, Frege, Russell and others.
page no 27 note * Mathematical Gazette, October, 1932.
page no 28 note * Kretschmer, E., Physique and Cfiaracter, p. 244.Google Scholar
page no 30 note * See article entitled, " Building a University Psychological Service ", Mary Swainson ; Mental Health, Winter 1951.