The Purpose of EPCTM is:

• to create and maintain an active interest in mathematics;
  
  
• to encourage effective mathematics teaching at various levels of instruction in the schools;
  
  
• to provide a medium for exchange of views pertaining to mathematics and to the teaching of mathematics;
  
  
• to promote research in the field of mathematics and the teaching of mathematics; and
  
  
• to promote among all teachers a genuine concern for the complete development of each student.