The JMC was incorporated as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation on 20 January 2017 by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. It is the successor body to the unincorporated Joint Mathematical Council of the United Kingdom which was founded on 11 July 1962 and first met on 9 January 1963 to “provide co-ordination between the Constituent Societies and generally to promote the advancement of mathematics and the improvement of the teaching of mathematics”. Following the transfer of activities and assets to the new body, the unincorporated JMC was dissolved on 17 August 2017.
The Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education was jointly established in January 2002 by the JMC and The Royal Society with the explicit backing of all major mathematics organisations and the support of the Department for Education, The Royal Society, the Wellcome Trust, the Gatsby Foundation and a range of other organisations across the STEM landscape. ACME was established to enable an effective and constructive partnership between Government and the mathematics community in England, with the aim of informing and advising the Department for Education in its drive to raise standards and promote mathematics at all levels in England.
In 2017 ACME was reconstituted and integrated into the committee structure of The Royal Society. The remit of ACME was extended to mathematics education across the whole of the United Kingdom. The link with the JMC is maintained as the Chair of the JMC is a member of the committee.
Past Chairs (from 2017)
2018 Professor Andy Noyes
2017 Professor Paul Glaister
Past Chairs (up to 2017)
2015 Professor Paul Glaister
2012 Professor Tim Rowland
2009 Professor Duncan Lawson
2006 Professor Rosamund Sutherland
2003 Professor Bernard Silverman FRS
1999 Professor Celia Hoyles
1995 Professor J Chris Robson
1991 Professor Margaret Brown
1988 Professor D G Crighton
1985 Professor R L E Schwarzenberger
1982 Professor C A Rogers FRS
1979 Professor George G Hall
1975 Professor H B Griffiths
1973 Professor S James Taylor
1969 Professor H Halberstam
1965 Professor Harry R Pitt FRS
1963 Professor Sir William Hodge FRS
Past Deputy Chairs (from 2017)
2021 Dr Noel-Ann Bradshaw
2018 Professor Alice Rogers
Past Secretaries (from 2017)
2017 Mr Peter Thomas
Honorary Secretaries (up to 2017)
2013 Mr Peter Thomas
2010 Mr Gerald Goodall
2006 Dr David Martin
2000 Dr Sue Sanders
1995 Graham Smart
1993 Ms Christine Hopkins
1986 Dr D M Kerslake
1981 Geoff T Wain
1979 Professor David Burghes
1973 Mr Hugh Neill
1968 Professor J V Armitage
1963 Professor J G Semple
Past Treasurers (from 2017)
2017 Dr Jennie Golding
2017 Dr Paul Harris
Honorary Treasurers (up to 2017)
2011 Dr Paul Harris
2001 Professor Adrian Oldknow
1998 Ann Kitchen
1993 Professor Derek Woodrow
1988 Professor W Derek Collins
1985 Professor Philip Holgate
1982 Professor Hugh Burkhardt
1977 Professor S James Taylor
1975 Professor J V Armitage
1971 Dr J A Todd
1963 Mr J T Combridge