Thirty-Four Years and Counting – The History of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Editors Joan Worth and Art Jorgensen
1995
Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association
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THE STRIPED, VENN-DIAGRAM logo has been a Mathematics Council identifying symbol since the very beginning. About 1961, “new math” programs were introduced in elementary and junior high schools (in Seeing Through Arithmetic and Seeing Through Mathematics series respectively). Venn diagrams were used extensively, particularly in junior high school math, so it was certainly a design of and for the times.
The three circles represent students, teachers and the mathematics curriculum, with the intersection of the three representing MCATA. This logo is still seen in the masthead of the Council’s newsletter.
The Council’s MCATA letters logo evolved over the years and was first seen superimposed on the Venn diagram logo. This letters-only logo later became a stand-alone symbol and can be found on such documents as the Council’s letterhead and membership brochures.
