This situation comes from our earliest history and continues to the present day. From a short history of mathematics education in this country by Alan Tucker we have the following remarks: “The country’s first colleges, created to train ministers, taught no mathematics or science. There was no training for teachers and theirs was one of the lowest ranked professions in early America. “Some founding fathers argued that a voting citizenry needed a deeper education. For example, George Washington wrote, ‘The science of figures. . . is not only indispensably requisite in every walk of civilized life, but the investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to correctness in reasoning.’ However,.
