Junior


 * Portal Name: ****Mathematics Junior**


 * Categories**
 * Templates**


 * Reason for creating portal: ** At [|Wikipedia], as of January 2014 the only portal mathematics is the [|Mathematics Portal]. Portals are very important because
 * The portal determine the categories under which articles are classified.
 * The portal determines the templates attached to articles.
 * More importantly, the portal determines the attitude towards any changes (edits) to old articles or what gets consider for new articles.

The current portal at Wikipedia Mathematics is based on the [|Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC)] It is solely for the peer review of articles of original research in higher mathematics, that is, for professional mathematicians. The website [|PlanetMath] uses this exact same classification system; it is also dedicated to creating an encyclopedia for higher mathematics; it uses exactly the same system (user created, peer-reviewed, all material is CC).

The MSC has two categories outside of higher mathematics: Mathematics Education and Mathematics History. However, the category Mathematics Education is considered by educators to be for articles on education (see e.g. [|discussion at MathFuture]__.__

**Resulting problem from current portal:** K-14 mathematics is lumped into the category math education. Have a look at the contents of the category Elementary Algebra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Elementary_algebra


 * Name: Junior**
 * Plus:** (a)This sounds reasonably good in English, (b) it is not insulting to pupils or teachers, (c) it gets the message across, (d) adding (junior) to article names with the same titles as in the mathematics portal is reasonable and (e) it indicates that there is actually more to mathematics than what one learns in K-12.


 * Minus:** (a) It probably doesn't translate well (at least it doesn't into the slavic language I use).

I consider the categories the lifeblood of any portal (and of course my main objection to the mathematics portal). The categories listed below (a) are different than the category names in the mathematics portal and (b) are based on the US Common Core State Standards. I would highly suggest that we get a good concensus on these including (but not limited to) UK and AUS standards.
 * Portal Categories: **

Note: Lfahberg who is a university professor of Mathematics and ICT in Education has been to many, many conferences whose topics are classified