Notes and News: SECONDARY TECHNICAL HEADS CONFER

Mr R. H. Collins, of Harold Cartwright Grammar School, Solihull, told the conference of current progress in bringing a new ‘O’‐level syllabus in Mathematics into operation. Over the years an ever‐widening gulf had been developing between the mathematics taught in schools and that taught in the universities, colleges of technology and used in industry and life in general. We have always forced children to follow adult ways of reasoning — very different from their own; now a child‐centred mathematics was required in which whatever is being developed as a topic must have roots in the immediate and past experience of the children.