Article ID: CBB000340648

The College of Preceptors and the Educational Times: Changes for British Mathematics Education in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2003)

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Description Shows how the discourse on mathematics education led to the introduction of entrance examinations for Oxford and Cambridge Universities.


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Authors & Contributors
Despeaux, Sloan Evans
Warwick, Andrew
Wang, Xiao-qin
Verburgt, Lukas M.
van Wyhe, John
Snyder, Laura J.
Journals
Historia Mathematica
Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy
Studies in Dialectics of Nature
Science and Education
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Springer
Broadway Books
Ashgate Publishing
Concepts
Mathematics
Universities and colleges
Science education and teaching
Science and society
Logic
Education
People
De Morgan, Augustus
Whewell, William
Venn, John
Boole, George
Jones, Richard
Newton, Isaac
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
England
Bath (England)
London (England)
France
Institutions
Cambridge University
Oxford University
Bath University
London Mathematical Society
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