UNITED STATES BUREAU OF EDUCATION
BULLETIN, 1912, NO. 2 -
WHOLE NUMBER 470

INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION
ON THE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS

GENERAL OFFICERS

PRESIDENT, F. KLEIN, GEH. REG.-RAT, THE UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN.
VICE PRESIDENT, SIR GEORGE GREENHILL, F. R. S., LONDON.
GENERAL SECRETARY, H. FEHR, THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA.

AMERICAN COMMISSIONERS

DAVID EUGENE SMITH, CHAIRMAN, TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, N. Y.

W. F. OSGOOD, HARVARD UNIVERISTY, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

J. W. A. YOUNG, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, CHICAGO, ILL.

THE AMERICAN REPORT

Committee No. XI. Mathematics at West Point and Annapolis

Professor Clifford B. Upton, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, N. Y., Chairman.

Professor C. P. Echols, United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y.
Professor W. J. King, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
Wm. E. Breckenridge, Stuyvesant High School, New York, N. Y.

Subcommittee 1. The Training of Army Officers, Including Schools for Graduates of West Point

Professor C. P. Echols, United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., Chairman.
Major Tracy C. Dickson, Ordnance Department, Sandy Hook, N. J.
Captain Alston Hamilton, Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.

Subcommittee 2. The Training of Naval Officers, Including Schools for Graduates

of Annapolis

Professor W. J. King, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Chairman.
Professor E. J. Yowell, Annapolis, Md.
Professor C. H. Sisam, Urbana, Ill.

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CONTENTS.

General report_

Report of subcommittee 1.-Mathematics in the training of Army officers,

including schools for graduates of West Point---

I. The United States Military Academy.......

Historical sketch____.

Entrance requirements

Distribution of time-----

Extent of course in pure mathematics.

Purpose of teaching mathematics_.

Administration____.

Methods, reviews, and examinations_

Course in mechanics and astronomy.

II. Engineer School of Application, Washington Barracks, D. C----

Object of school_____.

Organization, students, and courses of study-

Study and application of mathematics__

Methods of instruction_-_-

Examinations___.

III. Ordnance School of Application, Sandy Hook Proving Ground,

N. J________

Method of obtaining students_.

Course of study-----

Method of instruction__--.

IV. The Coast Artillery School--.

Courses of study-

Report of subcommittee 2.-Mathematics in schools for the training of

naval officers, including school for graduates of Annapolis_-_-

Entrance requirements-

Course of instruction_.

Distribution of time..

Purpose of teaching mathematics_

Administration_‒‒‒‒

Methods, reviews, and examinations_.

Nature of the courses in mathematics_.

Use of mathematics in other studies__

Opportunities for further study__

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