Phillip S. Jones

The Importance of Articulation

Phillip S. Jones, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. PROBABLY no experienced teacher or school administrator needs to be convinced that continuity and articulation in our school program are important. If so the fact that two substantial current publications’ are largely devoted to these topics should emphasize that consideration of this problem is particularly timely, as well as important. Further, data gathered in connection with the first of these two studies shows that, of the various situations in which students reported help or hindrance in their progress through school, subject matter and moving to the next school level ranked third and fourth in importance as judged by the frequency with which they were mentioned. This seems to give particular importance to the problem of the articulation between elementary and secondary schools of their mathematics programs. This observed importance is well explained by psychological and philosophical considerations which also give some clues as to how to

Louis Charles Karpinski, historian of mathematics and cartography

Abstract Louis C. Karpinski was best known for his publications on the history of mathematics, and secondarily as a historian of cartography. This survey of his life includes an account of his contributions to the teaching of mathematics and of his avocational interests as a collector, chess player, and gadfly attacking what he saw as poor thinking and abuses of power in both the universities and in the public domain. It is followed by a note on archives, a list of the Ph.D. theses he supervised, and a complete bibliography.