University of Texas, Center for American History

A Guide to the Mathematical Association of America Records, 1916-present: Part 4 - Committees and Awards



Descriptive Summary

Creator:Mathematical Association of America
Title: Mathematical Association of America Records,
Dates:1916-present
Abstract: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.
Accession No.: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; 2005-025; 2005-133; 2005-159; 2005-199; 2006-017; 2006-025; 2006-026; 2006-076
Extent:319 ft., 1 in.
Laguage:Materials are written in English.
Repository:Archives of American Mathematics, Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin

 

Organization:

Due to size, this inventory has been divided into seven separate units which can be accessed by clicking on the highlighted text.
MAA Records Homepage
Part one: Headquarters Records
Part two: Officers
Part three: Publications
Part four: Committees and Awards [this page]
Part five: Section Files
Part six: Meetings and Conferences
Part seven: Projects

Restrictions

Use Restrictions

Portions of this collection are stored off-site at Collections Deposit Library and the Library Storage Facility. Contact reference staff for retrieval.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Mathematical Association of America Records, 1916-present, Archives of American Mathematics, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin


 Box number conventions: 

Collections Deposit Library (CDL): Range.Shelf/Accession No./Box number, If the accession number is unknown, it will be left out. 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.


Detailed Description of the Papers

 

Part 4 - Committees and Awards:

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4RM169Committee on Educational Media:
Address list, undated
Individual Lectures Project:
Memorandum from Richard Long [on the closure of the ILP Berkeley Project Office], May 15, 1967
MAA Committee on Educational Media, An Annotated Bibliography of Films and Videotapes for College Mathematics (Preliminary Edition), January 1, 1977
May, Kenneth O., “Growth and Nature of the Mathematical Literature” [draft for private circulation], January 1967
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
Kac, Mark, “Can You Hear the Shape of a Drum?” [expanded version of ILP filmed lecture], undated
ILP-MAA Teachers Guide for the film Let Us Teach Guessing, George Polya, 1967
ILP-MAA Film Manual 3, Andrew Gleason, 1967
ILP-MAA Film Manual 4, Who Killed Determinants? Kenneth O. May, 1967
Programmed Topics in Calculus [Working Document]:
Volume 1: Chapter A: Functions, Limits, Continuity and Chapter B: Derivative and Applications, August 1965
Volume 2: Chapter C: The Least Upper Bound Axiom and Chapter D: The Definite Integral, August 1965
Volume 3: Chapter E: Transcendental Functions, August 1965
Volume 4: Chapter F: Applications of the Definite Integral and Chapter G: Techniques of Integration, August 1965
Volume 5: Chapter H: Infinite Sequences and Series, August 1965
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4RM127Restricted: Committee on Educational Media materials, CD-ROM [disc includes electronic versions of materials from this committee], 2006
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2.1/2006-055/2Mathematics Today series:
Mathematical Induction:
Leon Henkin oral history interview materials [includes correspondence and printed material], 2006 and undated
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4RM34Leon Henkin oral history interview, conducted by Caroline Kane [VHS], January 22, 2006
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*2.325/A92a [98-104]Committee on Institutes, Vincent O. McBrien:
Survey of 1964 summer seminar, March 1969
Letter to fifty presidents and chairmen about the junior college proposition, 1968-1969
Follow-up of 1966 Summer Seminar participation, 1968
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*2.325/A92b [98-104]1966 Summer Seminar at Bowdoin, 1966-1968
Junior College proposals, 1968
Correspondence:
[With printed material], 1967-1968
January 1969-September 1971
January 1969 Cooperative Summer Seminary reunion, 1968-1969
Meetings:
Eugene, OR, San Antonio, Atlantic City, 1969-1971
Laramie Meeting, August 1970
NSF Short Courses program, 1970-1971
1971 Summer Seminar:
General, 1969-1971
Correspondence, 1969-1971
1972 Summer Seminar, 1971-1972
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F.7/2000-170/1Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM):
"CUPM, the History of an Idea," American Mathematical Monthly, January 1967
Lists of CUPM publications, 1965-1967
CUPM Report, nos. 1-4, 6-12, and 14-18, 1961-1967
CUPM Newsletter, nos. 1-7, 1967-1972
CUPM Consultants Bureau, 1966/67-1969/70
Miscellaneous CUPM publications, 1957-1991
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F.7/2000-159/1Pregraduate Preparation of Research Mathematicians, [two copies, one annotated by Lynn A. Steen?], May 1963
A General Curriculum in Mathematics for Colleges: A Report to the Mathematical Association of America, 1965
Qualifications for a College Faculty in Mathematics: Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Qualifications of College Teachers, January 1967
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F.7/2005-159/1Commentary on a General Curriculum in Mathematics for Colleges, [two copies], January 1972
Applied Mathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, [two copies], January 1972
Suggestions on the Teaching of College Mathematics: A Report of the Panel on College Teacher Preparation, January 1972
Recommendations on Undergraduate Mathematics Courses Involving Computing: A Report of the Panel on the Impact of Computing on Mathematics Courses, October 1972
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F.7/2005-025/1The Undergraduate Major in the Mathematical Sciences, 1991
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4RM169College Mathematics: Suggestions on How to Teach It, March 1979
Pregraduate Preparation of Research Mathematicians, May 1963
A Curriculum in Applied Mathematics, 1966
Recommendations on the Undergraduate Mathematics Program for Work in Computing, May 1964
Mathematical Engineering: A Five Year Program, October 1966
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2.1/2006-055/1Presidential Task Force on NCTM Standards:
Members, September, 1996
Correspondence with NCTM (primarily Mary Lindquist 1997-1998
“Panel in Baltimore” [email from Roger Howe November 19, 1997
1989 standards [includes correspondence], 1996
First draft, January 1997
Third round of questions, 1997-1998
Round 3.5 [questions and report], 1998
Round 4 [questions and report], 1998
January 1997 Math meeting [includes Task Force agenda], 1997 and undated
NCTM 76th Annual Meeting MAA session, 1997-1998
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2.1/2006-055/2Mathematical reasoning and proofs [includes manuscript of “Doing and Proving”], 1997
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
American Federation of Teachers Standards, 1997
Report of the Association for Women in Mathematics Review Group, undated
ASA ARG, undated
Howe, Roger, “The AMS and Mathematics Education: The Revision of the NCTM Standards,” undated
“Awareness of the NCTM Standards, Mathematics, Beliefs, and Classroom Practices of Mathematics Faculty at the Collegiate Level,” undated
“Item and Test Specifications for the National Voluntary 8th Grade Mathematics Test,” 1997
Berger, Thomas and Harvey B. Keynes, “Everybody Counts / Everybody Else” in CBMS Issues in Mathematics Education, 5, 1995
Wu, H., “Report on the Visits to Four Math Projects, Summer 1997,” September 1997
Wu, H., “Some Observations on the 1997 Battle of the Two Standards in the California Math War,” 1998
Olson, Zim M., “Creative Mathematics,” 1997
San Antonio Prefreshman Engineering Program, 1997-1999
Issues and letters [includes correspondence and assorted printed material], 1996-1998
Awards:
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4RM35DVD on all winners of the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, 1993-2005



 

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