A second revolution

1965 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-255
Author(s):  
John F. Newport
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
School Science ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Science ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
New Science ◽  
National Science ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Mathematical Operations

While we have been beating the drum about the revolution in elementary school mathematics in recent years, a second revolution has been quietly taking place. The science course improvement projects, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, have resulted in a number of experimental elementary school science programs, and many of the lessons in some of the programs involve mathematical operations. In some instances the mathematics required of the student in the new science programs seems to be more difficult than that which might confront the student in his study of mathematics per se.

Elementary school mathematics in the 1970s

1971 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 385
Author(s):  
John R. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
National Council ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
National Science ◽  
Mathematics And Science

Following the successful launching of Sputnik, Congress created the National Science Foundation with instructions and funds to upgrade the scholarship of teachers of mathematics and science. Prestigious professors of mathematics, in cooperation with committees of the Mathematics Association of America and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, set out to produce a modern program of instruction in school mathematics. The then-existing programs were analyzed and found to be seriously inadequate in structure, in definitions and assumptions, in development of properties of operation with their appropriate symbolism, and in precision of vocabulary. During the early 1960s institutes and writing teams were engaged in producing and promoting the so-called new mathematics. The resulting reform movement in mathematics education eclipsed any previous one, both in scope and in speed of implementation.

Reflections on the courtship of mathematics and science

1967 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 645-649
Author(s):  
Charles H. D'Augustine
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
School Science ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Science ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
Mathematics Program ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Mathematics And Science

It has been said that mathematics is the queen of the sciences. However, if one wants a truly dynamic elementary school mathematics program, then one must promote the marriage of mathematics and science curriculums. We have only to study the current elementary school science and mathematics programs in order to realize that not only are mathematics and science unmarried, but neither curriculum reflects a very serious awareness of the other's existence.

Science and mathematics in the elementary school

1967 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 629-635
Author(s):  
John R. Mayor
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Science Education ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
American Association ◽  
School Science ◽  
Primary Grade ◽  
Science Program ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
National Science ◽  
And Mathematics

The Commission on Science Education of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with the support of the National Science Foundation, started work in the spring of 1963 on the development of an experimental elementary school science program that has significance for elementary school mathematics. The primary-grade materials have been tried out, revised, and tried again over a period of three years in fourteen centers from the state of Washington to Florida. The tryout and revision of the intermediate- grade materials is continuing. The following description of the program shows in what ways mathematics is an integral part of the program.

Forum on teacher preparation: Preservice textbooks: an analysis

1969 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 479-484
Author(s):  
Douglas E. Cruikshank
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
National Science ◽  
And Mathematics

Teachers need to be well prepared in order to understand contemporary mathematics and to provide worthwhile learning experiences for their elementary school youngsters. As a result of changes that have occurred in mathematics and elementary school mathematics instruction, efforts are being made to improve the preservice and in-service education of elementary teachers. Two examples are The Arithmetic Teacher's “Forum on Teacher Preparation,” and the 1967 summer conference at East Lansing, cosponsored by the Science and Mathematics Teaching Center of Michigan State University and the National Science Foundation.1

Depictions of Ethnicity and Gender in Elementary School Science Materials

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Winterrowd ◽  
Silvia Canetto ◽  
April Biasiolli ◽  
Nazanin Mohajeri-Nelson ◽  
Aki Hosoi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
School Science ◽  
Elementary School Science ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender

Eliciting Student Thinking in Elementary School Mathematics Classrooms

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan L. Franke ◽  
Noreen M. Webb ◽  
Angela Chan ◽  
Dan Battey ◽  
Marsha Ing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Student Thinking ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
Mathematics Classrooms
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