Descriptive Summary
Mathematical Association of
America
Mathematical Association of
America Records,
1916-presentMaterials
are written in English.
86-11; 86-12; 86-14; 86-17; 86-18; 86-19;
86-43; 89-2; 89-5; 89-6; 89-7; 90-1; 90-3; 93-429; 94-189; 94-204; 95-244;
96-031; 96-173; 97-014; 98-104; 2000-012; 2000-170; 2000-233; 2001-098;
2002-023; 2003-133; 2003-044; 2004-170; 2005-025; 2005-133; 2005-159; 2005-199;
2006-017; 2006-025; 2006-026; 2006-039; 2006-055; 2006-060; 2006-076; 2006-091;
2006-108; 2006-135; 2007-152; 2007-174; 2008-284; 2009-256; 2010-003; 2010-105;
2010-192; 2010-194; 2011-007; 2011-016; 2011-047; 2011-138; 2011-140; 2011-141;
2011-231; 2011-242; 2013-019
327 ft., 1 in.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists
of correspondence, printed material, notes, publications, and photographs
documenting the work of the Mathematical Association of America, one of the
primary professional organizations in the field of mathematics.
Access Restrictions
Records for MAA journals that reveal the names of referees will be restricted for a
period of 30 years from the date of creation, unless the current editor of the
journal grants permission. Unprocessed material is also restricted. All other
material is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Portions of this collection are stored off-site at Collections Deposit
Library and the Library Storage Facility. Advance notice required for retrieval.
Contact repository for retrieval.
Preferred Citation
Mathematical Association of America Records, 1916-present, Archives of
American Mathematics, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at
Austin.
Box number conventions:
Collections Deposit Library (CDL): Accession No./Box number (with the
designation “CDL” in parentheses). Stored off-site.
Library Storage Facility (LSF): Accession Number/Box Number, (with nine
digit LSF number in parentheses underneath). Stored off-site.
Sid Richardson Hall (SRH): Proceeded by an asterix (*). Various location
formats, followed by accession number in [square brackets]. Located
on-site.
Organization:
Due to size, this inventory has been divided into seven separate units
which can be accessed by clicking on the highlighted text.
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MAA Records Homepage
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Part one: Headquarters Records
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Part two: Officers
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Part three: Publications
- Part four: Committees and Awards [this page]
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[Committee on
Educational Media](cem)
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[Committee on Institutes](institutes)
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[Committee on
the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM)](cupm)
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[Presidential
Task Force on NCTM Standards](nctm)
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[Awards](awards)
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Part five: Section Files
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Part six: Meetings and Conferences
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Part seven: Projects
Detailed Description of the Papers
Part 4 - Committees and Awards:
4RM169
Committee on Educational Media:
4RM169
Address list,
undated
4RM169
Individual Lectures Project:
4RM169
Memorandum from Richard Long [on the closure of the
ILP Berkeley Project Office],
May 15, 1967
4RM169
MAA Committee on Educational Media, An Annotated
Bibliography of Films and Videotapes for College Mathematics (Preliminary
Edition),
January 1, 1977
4RM169
May, Kenneth O., “Growth and Nature of the
Mathematical Literature” [draft for private circulation],
January 1967
4RM169
Curtis, C. W. “The Classical Groups as a Source of
Algebraic Problems,”
American Mathematical Monthly,
Vol. 74, No. 1, Part II [published version of filmed ILP lecture],
January 1967
4RM169
Kac, Mark, “Can You Hear the Shape of a Drum?”
[expanded version of ILP filmed lecture],
undated
4RM169
ILP-MAA Teachers Guide for the film
Let Us Teach Guessing, George
Polya,
1967
4RM169
ILP-MAA Film Manual 3, Andrew Gleason,
1967
4RM169
ILP-MAA Film Manual 4,
Who Killed Determinants? Kenneth
O. May,
1967
4RM169
Programmed Topics in Calculus [Working
Document]:
4RM169
Volume 1: Chapter A: Functions, Limits, Continuity and
Chapter B: Derivative and Applications,
August 1965
4RM169
Volume 2: Chapter C: The Least Upper Bound Axiom and
Chapter D: The Definite Integral,
August 1965
4RM169
Volume 3: Chapter E: Transcendental Functions,
August 1965
4RM169
Volume 4: Chapter F: Applications of the Definite
Integral and Chapter G: Techniques of Integration,
August 1965
4RM169
Volume 5: Chapter H: Infinite Sequences and Series,
August 1965
4RM127
Restricted: Committee on
Educational Media materials, CD-ROM [disc includes electronic versions of
materials from this committee],
2006
2006-055/2 (15994009)
Mathematics Today
series:
2006-055/2 (15994009)
Mathematical
Induction:
2006-055/2 (15994009)
Leon Henkin oral history interview materials
[includes correspondence and printed material],
2006 and undated
4RM34
Leon Henkin oral history interview, conducted by
Caroline Kane [VHS],
January 22, 2006
*2.325/A92a [98-104]
Committee on Institutes, Vincent O.
McBrien:
*2.325/A92a [98-104]
Survey of 1964 summer seminar,
March 1969
*2.325/A92a [98-104]
Letter to fifty presidents and chairmen about the junior
college proposition,
1968-1969
*2.325/A92a [98-104]
Follow-up of 1966 Summer Seminar participation,
1968
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
1966 Summer Seminar at Bowdoin,
1966-1968
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
Junior College proposals,
1968
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
Correspondence:
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
[With printed material],
1967-1968
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
January 1969-September 1971
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
January 1969 Cooperative Summer Seminary reunion,
1968-1969
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
Meetings:
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
Eugene, OR, San Antonio, Atlantic City,
1969-1971
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
Laramie Meeting,
August 1970
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
NSF Short Courses program,
1970-1971
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
1971 Summer Seminar:
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
General,
1969-1971
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
Correspondence,
1969-1971
*2.325/A92b [98-104]
1972 Summer Seminar,
1971-1972
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
A Conferene on Mathematics Curricula in Institutes,
January 1961
2000-170/1 (CDL)
Committee on the Undergraduate Program in
Mathematics (CUPM):
2000-170/1 (CDL)
"CUPM, the History of an Idea,"
American Mathematical Monthly,
January 1967
2000-170/1 (CDL)
Lists of CUPM publications,
1965-1967
2000-170/1 (CDL)
CUPM Report, nos. 1-4, 6-12, and
14-18,
1961-1967
2000-170/1 (CDL)
CUPM Newsletter, nos. 1-7,
1967-1972
2000-170/1 (CDL)
CUPM Consultants Bureau,
1966/67-1969/70
2000-170/1 (CDL)
Miscellaneous CUPM publications
Collected Reports of the CUP [1 copy],
1957
Recommendations for the Training of Teachers of Mathematics [1 copy],
January 1961
Course Guides for the Training of Teachers of Junior High and High School Mathematics [1 copy],
December 1961
A Catalogue Survey of College Mathematics Courses [1 copy],
December 1961
Recommendations on the Undergraduate Mathematics Program for Engineers and Physicists [2 copies, one reprinted 1965],
January 1962
Preliminary Recommendations for an Honors Program in Mathematics [1 copy],
June 1962
Tentative Recommendations for the Undergraduate Mathematics Program of Students in the Biological, Management, and Social Sciences [2 copies],
January 1964
Recommendations on the Undergraduate Mathematics Program for Work in Computing [1 copy],
May 1964
CUPM Bulletin, No. 65,
December 8, 1964
Basic Library List [1 copy],
January 1965
Mathematics Text Materials for the Undergraduate Preparation of Elementary School Teachers [1 copy],
November 1965
A General Curriculum in Mathematics for Colleges [2 copies],
1965
Teacher Training Supplement to Basic Library List [1 copy],
April 4, 1965
Recommendations for the Training of Teachers of Mathematics [1 copy],
December 1966
Mathematical Engineering for a Five Year Program [2 copies],
October 1966
A Curriculum in Applied Mathematics [2 copies],
1966
T. E. Hull, The Numerical Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations, [1 copy],
1966
R. W. Hamming, Calculus and the Computer Revolution [1 copy],
1966
Recommendations on the Undergraduate Mathematics Program for Engineers and Physicists [2 copies],
January 1967
Qualifications for a College Faculty in Mathematics [2 copies],
January 1967
Course Guides for the Training of Teachers of Elementary School Mathematics [1 copy],
1968
A Transfer Curriculum in Mathematics for Two Year Colleges [1 copy],
1969
Qualifications for Teaching University Parallel Mathematics Courses in Two-Year Colleges [1 copy],
August 1969
A Beginning Graduate Program in Mathematics for Prospective Teachers of Undergraduates [1 copy],
1969
Recommendations for the Undergraduate Mathematics Program for Students in the Life Sciences: An Interim Report [2 copies],
September 1970
A Course in Basic Mathematics for Colleges [1 copy],
January 1971
A Basic Library List for Two-Year Colleges [1 copy],
January 1971
Recommendations on Course Content for the Training of Teachers of Mathematics [1 copy],
August 1971
Recommendations for an Undergraduate Program in Computational Mathematics [1 copy],
May 1971
Preparation for Graduate Work in Statistics [1 copy],
May 1971
Report of a CUPM Conference on Computational Mathematics [1 copy],
1971
Introductory Statistics Without Calculus [1 copy],
June 1972
Commentary on a General Curriculum in Mathematics for Colleges [1 copy],
January 1972
Applied Mathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum [1 copy],
January 1972
Suggestions on the Teaching of College Mathematics [1 copy],
January 1972
Recommendations on Undergraduate Mathematics Courses Involving Computing [1 copy],
October 1972
CUPM Conference on Special Problems of Minority Groups [1 copy],
1972
Some Illustrative Examples of the Use of Undergraduate Mathematics in the Social Sciences [1 copy],
[1973?]
A Compendium of CUPM Recommendations [1 copy],
[1975?]
Case Studies in Applied Mathematics [1 copy],
1976
College Mathematics: Suggestions on How to Teach It [2 copies, one copy annotated D. Bushaw],
March 1979
Training Programs for Teaching Assistants in Mathematics [2 copies, one annotated as “Revision copy”],
1981
Recommendations for a General Mathematical Sciences Program [1 copy],
1981
The Undergraduate Major in the Mathematical Sciences [1 copy],
1991
2005-159/1
Note: This box is currently unavailable. Contact archivist with questions.
2005-159/1
Pregraduate Preparation of Research
Mathematicians, [two copies, one annotated by Lynn A. Steen?],
May 1963
2005-159/1
A General Curriculum in Mathematics for
Colleges: A Report to the Mathematical Association of America,
1965
2005-159/1
Qualifications for a College Faculty in
Mathematics: Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Qualifications of College
Teachers,
January 1967
2005-159/1
Commentary on a General Curriculum in
Mathematics for Colleges, [two copies],
January 1972
2005-159/1
Applied Mathematics in the Undergraduate
Curriculum, [two copies],
January 1972
2005-159/1
Suggestions on the Teaching of College
Mathematics: A Report of the Panel on College Teacher Preparation,
January 1972
2005-159/1
Recommendations on Undergraduate
Mathematics Courses Involving Computing: A Report of the Panel on the Impact of
Computing on Mathematics Courses,
October 1972
2005-025/1 (CDL)
The Undergraduate Major in the
Mathematical Sciences, report of CUPM, MAA,
1991
4RM169
College Mathematics: Suggestions on How to
Teach It,
March 1979
4RM169
Pregraduate Preparation of Research
Mathematicians,
May 1963
4RM169
A Curriculum in Applied
Mathematics,
1966
4RM169
Recommendations on the Undergraduate
Mathematics Program for Work in Computing,
May 1964
4RM169
Mathematical Engineering: A Five Year
Program,
October 1966
4RM169<emph render="italic">Mathematics and Engineering, </emph>December 1961
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
Elementary Mathematics of Sets With Applications,
1959
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
CUPM Reports, nos. 15-16,
1966
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
CUPM Newsletter, nos. 5-6,
1970
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
Miscellaneous Publications
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
Recommendations of the Mathematical Association of America
for the Training of Teachers of Mathematics [reprint from AMM],
December 1960
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
T.E. Hull, The Numerical Integrationo of Ordinary Differential Equations,
1966
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
Basic Library List,
January 1965
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
Preparation for Graduate Study in Mathematics,
November 1965
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
A Transfer Curriculum in Mathematics for Two Year Colleges,
1969
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
A Basic Library List for Two Year Colleges,
January 1971
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
A Course in Basic Mathematics for Colleges,
January 1971
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
Preparation for Graduate Work in Statistics,
May 1971
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
Recommendations for an Undergraduate Program in Computational
Mathematics: A Report of the Panel on Computing,
May 1971
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
Suggestions on the Teaching of College Mathematics,
January 1972
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
Introductory Statistics without Calculus,
June 1972
AAM-CUPM/1 (LSF)
Recommendations on Undergraduate Mathematics Courses Involving Computing,
October 1972
2010-192/1 (LSF)
Collected Reports of the CUP,
1957
2010-192/1 (LSF)
Recommendations for the Training of Teachers of Mathematics,
January 1961
2010-192/1 (LSF)
Basic Library List,
January 1965
2010-192/1 (LSF)
Preparation for Graduate Study in Mathematics,
November 1965
2010-192/1 (LSF)
A Transfer Curriculum in Mathematics for Two Year Colleges,
1969
2010-192/1 (LSF)
Recommendations on Course Content for the Training of Teachers of Mathematics,
August 1971
2006-055/1 (CDL)
Presidential Task Force on NCTM
Standards:
2006-055/1 (CDL)
Members,
September, 1996
2006-055/1 (CDL)
Correspondence with NCTM (primarily Mary Lindquist
1997-1998
2006-055/1 (CDL)
“Panel in Baltimore” [email from Roger Howe
November 19, 1997
2006-055/1 (CDL)
1989 standards [includes correspondence],
1996
2006-055/1 (CDL)
First draft,
January 1997
2006-055/1 (CDL)
Third round of questions,
1997-1998
2006-055/1 (CDL)
Round 3.5 [questions and report],
1998
2006-055/1 (CDL)
Round 4 [questions and report],
1998
2006-055/1 (CDL)
January 1997 Math meeting [includes Task Force agenda],
1997 and undated
2006-055/1 (CDL)
NCTM 76th Annual Meeting MAA session,
1997-1998
2006-055/2 (15994009)
Mathematical reasoning and proofs [includes manuscript
of “Doing and Proving”],
1997
2006-055/2 (15994009)
Ross, Kenneth A., “Doing and Proving: The Place of
Algorithms and Proofs in School Mathematics,” in The American Mathematical
Monthly, 105 (3) [includes correspondence and page proof],
1998
2006-055/2 (15994009)
American Federation of Teachers Standards,
1997
2006-055/2 (15994009)
Report of the Association for Women in Mathematics
Review Group,
undated
2006-055/2 (15994009)
ASA ARG,
undated
2006-055/2 (15994009)
Howe, Roger, “The AMS and Mathematics Education: The
Revision of the NCTM Standards,”
undated
2006-055/2 (15994009)
“Awareness of the NCTM Standards, Mathematics, Beliefs,
and Classroom Practices of Mathematics Faculty at the Collegiate Level,”
undated
2006-055/2 (15994009)
“Item and Test Specifications for the National Voluntary
8th Grade Mathematics Test,”
1997
2006-055/2 (15994009)
Berger, Thomas and Harvey B. Keynes, “Everybody Counts /
Everybody Else” in
CBMS Issues in Mathematics
Education, 5,
1995
2006-055/2 (15994009)
Wu, H., “Report on the Visits to Four Math Projects,
Summer 1997,”
September 1997
2006-055/2 (15994009)
Wu, H., “Some Observations on the 1997 Battle of the Two
Standards in the California Math War,”
1998
2006-055/2 (15994009)
Olson, Zim M., “Creative Mathematics,”
1997
2006-055/2 (15994009)
San Antonio Prefreshman Engineering Program,
1997-1999
2006-055/2 (15994009)
Issues and letters [includes correspondence and assorted
printed material],
1996-1998
4RM35
Awards:
DVD on all winners of the Deborah and Franklin Tepper
Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics,
1993-2005
Click here to proceed to Part 5 of the finding
aid.