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Founded in 1920, The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) is a professional organization for schoolteachers of mathematics in the United States. One of its goals is to improve the standards of mathematics in education. NCTM holds annual national and regional conferences for teachers and publishes five journals.
The National Association of Mathematicians is a professional association for mathematicians in the US, especially African Americans and other minorities. [1] It was founded in 1969. [ 2 ]
This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers.Being invited to talk at an International Congress of Mathematicians has been called "the equivalent, in this community, of an induction to a hall of fame."
The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) is an umbrella organization of seventeen professional societies in the mathematical sciences in the United States. It and its member societies are recognized by the International Mathematical Union as the national mathematical societies for their country.
He was the president of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) from 2008 to 2009. [1] Dr. Kanold holds a bachelor's degree in Education and a master's degree in Mathematics from Illinois State University, and a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Counseling Psychology from Loyola University Chicago.
The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure and applied mathematicians; computer scientists; statisticians; and many others in academia, government, business, and industry.
The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) is an organization dedicated to the improvement of education in the first two years of college mathematics in the United States and Canada. AMATYC hosts an annual conference, summer institutes, workshops and mentoring for teachers in and outside math, and a semiannual math ...
From 2001 to 2004, Tapia chaired the National Research Council's Board of Higher Education and workforce. [10] In 2004, Tapia received the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession, in Portland, and Distinguished Public Service Award, American Mathematical Society, in Phoenix. [11]