The society is also responsible for the accreditation and supervision of learning and teaching in physics at the upper secondary and higher levels.
Its main offices are located in the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), in Mexico City.
[1] The SMF has agreements with the American Physical Society (APS), with the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP), with the Physical Society of Japan (PSJ) and the Sociedad Cubana de Física (SCF)[1] (which publishes the Revista Cubana de Física).
The organization in charge of accrediting physics education programs is the Consejo de Acreditación de Programas Educativos en Física (CAPEF) (i.e. Council for Educational Programs in Physics) made up of the SMF and the Sociedad Matemática Mexicana (SMM).
The ''XIX Encuentro Nacional sobre la Enseñanza de la Física en el Nivel Medio Superior (XIX National Meeting on the Teaching of Physics at the Higher Secondary Level) was held in Culiacán Rosales, Sinaloa in 2007 from the 1st to the 3rd of October.