{"id":4324,"date":"2025-03-25T18:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2025-03-25T18:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:17:38","slug":"from-the-archives-1949-mathbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/?p=4324","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFrom the Archives\u20131949\u201d Mathbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Article Series by Mark Nechanicky, Region 1 Director<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>April 1949<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was Volume 1 Number one of the MCTM newsletter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Highlights about the Spring Conference held on April 29 and and April 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keynote speaker was the president of the NCTM, Mr. E.H.C.Hildebrandt<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Packed with new ideas and materials for the mathematics classroom<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discussion groups where you can ask questions and share experiences<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Successful teachers will share their \u201ctricks of the trade\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exhibits of new films, models, teaching devices and recreational mathematics books.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Featured speaker, Mr. Mark Graubard of the University of Minnesota, well known lecturer, will give interesting sidelights on the calculator.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>May 1949<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MCTM boasts a statewide membership of over 100 members and over 225 people attended the April 1949 conference. Annual membership dues were $1.00 ($32.23in 2025 dollars adjusted for inflation)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A student device for measuring distances indirectly using similar triangles:<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-at-7.15.42%E2%80%AFPM.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4330\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-at-7.15.42%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=300%2C201\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-at-7.15.42%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-at-7.15.42%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=1024%2C687&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-at-7.15.42%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=768%2C515&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-at-7.15.42%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-at-7.15.42%E2%80%AFPM.png?w=1214&amp;ssl=1 1214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith full teaching schedules and busy out of school lives, most of us have too little time and too little energy\u2026Let\u2019s get away from this apartment house living where we know nothing about our neighbor or even worse when we know him only for his infernal snoring or weird singing. Do you know all of the mathematics teachers in your school?&#8230;We can make ours (council) work for us by getting acquainted and by finding out what others are doing and thinking.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>December<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 1949<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heard at recent mathematics meetings<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur success in teaching mathematics can be evaluated by our own answers to these questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do my students have a clear understanding of basic principles?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can my students use mathematics?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do my students like to study mathematics?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Am I doing something new and different each year?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Am I improving my evaluation methods?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Film: Algebra in Everyday Life. Motivational film for 9th grade<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Book: The Makers of Mathematics. Excellent, readable history of mathematics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pamphlet: Just for Fun: A collection of mathematical jokes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Device: Dynamic Geometry Set (set of triangles, parallelograms, and circles)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Game: Magic Number. A card game for relaxation and mental exercise.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Series by Mark Nechanicky, Region 1 Director April 1949 was Volume 1 Number one of the MCTM newsletter Highlights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-archives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5riSd-17K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4331,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}