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The Math Forum has a New Home

The Math Forum has been acquired by Drexel University and is now known as the Math Forum @ Drexel. The new address of the site is http://mathforum.org/. Pointers from the previous addresses will seamlessly redirect you to the new location.

Remembering Dirk Jan Struik, 1894-2000

 

(30 September 1894 — 21 October 2000)

By Arthur B. Powell and Marilyn Frankenstein

    

Volumes 1-100 of the Monthly now on JSTOR

One Hundred Years of the Monthly
Now on JSTOR

The entire content of volumes 1-100 (1894-1993) of the American Mathematical Monthly is now available online at the JSTOR archive. Each year, one more volume will be added to the archive, so that all but the most recent five years will be available at all times.

NCTM releases draft of revised "standards"

The "Standards 2000" project of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has released a draft of the revised NCTM Standards for the teaching of mathematics. Entitled "Principles and Standards for School Mathematics", the document is a revision of the "Standards" proposed by NCTM in 1989, which have served as an overall guideline for much recent work attempting to reform the secondary school mathematics curriculum.

Math on PBS

One doesn't often see serious treatments of mathematics on television, so it's worth noting that one such is coming up soon. Beginning this April, PBS will be airing an important new series on mathematics, entitled Life by the Numbers. We reproduce below an article by Keith Devlin describing the series, which appeared in a recent issue of FOCUS, the MAA's print newsletter.

Jim Leitzel Lecture Fund

At its meeting in Toronto, the Board of Governors approved a proposal to establish an annual Jim Leitzel Lecture. This will be "a 50-minute address, given annually at the Mathfest, about issues or innovations in mathematical sciences education at the undergraduate or graduate level." An effort is now underway to endow a lecture fund.

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