Noble Mor

* Kiszucaújhely, October 28, 1883 – † ? November 3, 1914 / mathematics teacher ; ; He completed his high school studies in Žilina and Selmecbánya. In 1911, he obtained a mathematics and physics teaching certificate from the University of Budapest. From 1907, he taught first at the private middle school in Nagybiccse, and then from 1911 at the middle school in Törökszentmiklós. He spent the 1913/14 school year in Kisvárda when the Second World War broke out and he was drafted into the army. The place of his heroic death is unknown. He published an article on the need for a reform of mathematics teaching in the bulletin of the Kisvárda State High School (Reform of the Teaching of Secondary Mathematics, 1913/14), and in it he was the first to advocate the introduction of differential and integral calculus in secondary school education. He suggested that the concept of function should be placed at the center of teaching, and that mathematics education should also be made visual, e.g. functions should be discussed graphically. The way of thinking of secondary school students is still related to the concrete, so it would not be advisable to emphasize excessive abstraction; mathematics should be more closely associated with physics.