The Joint Mathematical Council (JMC) of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 was formed in 1963 to 'provide co-ordination between the Constituent Societies and generally to promote the advancement of mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

 and the improvement of the teaching of mathematics

Mathematics education

In contemporary education, mathematics education is the practice of teaching and learning mathematics, along with the associated scholarly research....

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The JMC serves as a forum for discussion between societies and for making representations to government and other bodies and responses to their enquiries. It is concerned with all aspects of mathematics at all levels from primary to higher education.

The constituent societies are

• Association of Teachers of Mathematics
  Association of Teachers of Mathematics
  The Association of Teachers of Mathematics was established in 1950 to encourage the development of mathematics education to be more closely related to the needs of the learner...
  
  
• Association of Mathematics Education Teachers
• British Society for the History of Mathematics
  British Society for the History of Mathematics
  The British Society for the History of Mathematics was founded in 1971 to promote research into the history of mathematics at all levels and to further the use of the history of mathematics in education....
  
  
• British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics
  British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics
  The British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics is a United Kingdom association for people interested in research in mathematics education...
  
  
• Edinburgh Mathematical Society
  Edinburgh Mathematical Society
  The Edinburgh Mathematical Society is the leading mathematical society in Scotland.The Society was founded in 1883 by a group of Edinburgh schoolteachers and academics, on the initiative of A. Y. Fraser and A. J. G. Barclay, teachers at George Watson's College and Cargill Gilston Knott, who was the...
  
  
• Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
  Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
  The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications is the UK's chartered professional body for mathematicians and one of the UK's learned societies for mathematics ....
  
  
• London Mathematical Society
  London Mathematical Society
  -See also:* American Mathematical Society* Edinburgh Mathematical Society* European Mathematical Society* List of Mathematical Societies* Council for the Mathematical Sciences* BCS-FACS Specialist Group-External links:* * *...
  
  
• Mathematical Association
  Mathematical Association
  The Mathematical Association is a professional society concerned with mathematics education in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1871 as the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching and renamed to the Mathematical Association in 1897. It was the first teachers' subject organisation...
  
  
• National Association for Numeracy and Mathematics in Colleges
• Royal Statistical Society
  Royal Statistical Society
  The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...
  
  

External links

• Web site (the underlying location of the site - which is hosted at the Open University - was altered on 7-09-2010)