National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: A Look at Mathematics Education Today

1973 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 503-508
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Council ◽  
The Past ◽  
Education Today

As I have traveled across this continent during the past year I have had the opportunity to take the pulse of mathematics education in the United States and Canada.

Capsule History of the NCTM

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Julius H. Hlavaty
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Council ◽  
History Of Mathematics Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The history of mathematics education in America is the story of a long and exciting adventure. It is the subject of a forthcoming NCTM Yearbook, A History of Mathematics Education in the United States and Canada. The following is a capsule account of the direct involvements and the tangential contacts of the National Council with that history during the past fifty years.

Teaching Mathematics with Technology: Teaching Mathematics Using Calculators

1991 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 58-60
Author(s):  
David L. Pagni
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
National Council ◽  
Technology Teaching

The last three years has seen a marvelous resurgence of interest in the use of calculators for teaching mathematics. Much of the credit goes to professional organizations like the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that have promoted the use of calculators. The renewed interest in the use of calculators in schools coupled with the sale of over 250 million electronic hand-held calculators in the last ten years in the United States (about three for each household) suggests that an opportunity exists for a revolution in mathematics education.

Officers of the NCTM Affiliated Groups

1958 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 403-409
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Roudebush
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
National Council ◽  
Large Cities

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics furnishes leadership in mathematics education in the United States of America and Canada. The membership of more than 15,000 comes from all parts of the two countries, from large cities, small towns, and rural communities. The publications of NCTM give help and inspiration to every member.

Research Commentary: Educational Technology: An Equity Challenge to the Common Core

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Kitchen ◽  
Sarabeth Berk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Common Core ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Standards ◽  
National Council ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The Common ◽  
Education Of Students

The implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010) has the potential to move forward key features of standards-based reforms in mathematics that have been promoted in the United States for more than 2 decades (e.g., National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1989, 2000; National Science Foundation, 1996). We believe that this is an especially opportune time to purposely focus on improving the mathematics education of students who have historically been denied access to a high-quality and rigorous mathematics education in the United States, specifically low-income students and students of color (e.g., Kitchen, DePree, Celedón-Pattichis, & Brinkerhoff, 2007; Leonard & Martin, 2013). We discuss a challenge to realizing standards-based reforms in mathematics in the United States: computer-based interventions in mathematics classrooms.

Officers of the NCTM Affiliated Groups

1959 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 418-425
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Roudebush
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Council ◽  
The World

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics as a dynamic, growing organization furnishes leadership in mathematics education in the United States of America and Canada. At present the membership of more than 20,000 comes from all parts of the world. The publications of NCTM are excellent, and give help and inspiration to every member.

One Point of View: Perspective on Mathematics Education Today

1982 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Iris M. Carl
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Student Achievement ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Academic Standards ◽  
Qualified Teachers ◽  
Educational Crisis ◽  
Education Today

Not since Sputnik has the United States of America been faced with an educational crisis of such magnitude. At issue are the appalling shortage of qualified teachers of mathematics, weakened academic standards, and decreased student achievement.

International Research and Variation in Views of Ethnicity

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
Ella Inglebret ◽  
Amy Skinder-Meredith ◽  
Shana Bailey ◽  
Carla Jones ◽  
Ashley France
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Classification System ◽  
International Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Scale ◽  
Publication Patterns

The authors in this article first identify the extent to which research articles published in three American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) journals included participants, age birth to 18 years, from international backgrounds (i.e., residence outside of the United States), and go on to describe associated publication patterns over the past 12 years. These patterns then provide a context for examining variation in the conceptualization of ethnicity on an international scale. Further, the authors examine terminology and categories used by 11 countries where research participants resided. Each country uses a unique classification system. Thus, it can be expected that descriptions of the ethnic characteristics of international participants involved in research published in ASHA journal articles will widely vary.

Proportion of Individuals With Past-Year Suicidal Ideation Who Attempted Suicide Over the Past 10 Years in the United States, and the Influence of Age and Sex

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Shannon Lange ◽  
Courtney Bagge ◽  
Charlotte Probst ◽  
Jürgen Rehm
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Random Effects ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Age Category

Abstract. Background: In recent years, the rate of death by suicide has been increasing disproportionately among females and young adults in the United States. Presumably this trend has been mirrored by the proportion of individuals with suicidal ideation who attempted suicide. Aim: We aimed to investigate whether the proportion of individuals in the United States with suicidal ideation who attempted suicide differed by age and/or sex, and whether this proportion has increased over time. Method: Individual-level data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 2008–2017, were used to estimate the year-, age category-, and sex-specific proportion of individuals with past-year suicidal ideation who attempted suicide. We then determined whether this proportion differed by age category, sex, and across years using random-effects meta-regression. Overall, age category- and sex-specific proportions across survey years were estimated using random-effects meta-analyses. Results: Although the proportion was found to be significantly higher among females and those aged 18–25 years, it had not significantly increased over the past 10 years. Limitations: Data were self-reported and restricted to past-year suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Conclusion: The increase in the death by suicide rate in the United States over the past 10 years was not mirrored by the proportion of individuals with past-year suicidal ideation who attempted suicide during this period.

EDITORIAL: Migration and competitiveness: Japan and the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Philip L. Martin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Variable Cost ◽  
Fixed Cost ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Key Sectors ◽  
Past Half

Japan and the United States, the world’s largest economies for most of the past half century, have very different immigration policies. Japan is the G7 economy most closed to immigrants, while the United States is the large economy most open to immigrants. Both Japan and the United States are debating how immigrants are and can con-tribute to the competitiveness of their economies in the 21st centuries. The papers in this special issue review the employment of and impacts of immigrants in some of the key sectors of the Japanese and US economies, including agriculture, health care, science and engineering, and construction and manufacturing. For example, in Japanese agriculture migrant trainees are a fixed cost to farmers during the three years they are in Japan, while US farmers who hire mostly unauthorized migrants hire and lay off workers as needed, making labour a variable cost.

Democratic Legitimacy

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Rosanvallon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
International Debate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Democratic Authority ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Western Democracies

It's a commonplace occurrence that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But this book argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. The book makes the case that the sources of democratic legitimacy have shifted and multiplied over the past thirty years and that we need to comprehend and make better use of these new sources of legitimacy in order to strengthen our political self-belief and commitment to democracy. Drawing on examples from France and the United States, the book notes that there has been a major expansion of independent commissions, NGOs, regulatory authorities, and watchdogs in recent decades. At the same time, constitutional courts have become more willing and able to challenge legislatures. These institutional developments, which serve the democratic values of impartiality and reflexivity, have been accompanied by a new attentiveness to what the book calls the value of proximity, as governing structures have sought to find new spaces for minorities, the particular, and the local. To improve our democracies, we need to use these new sources of legitimacy more effectively and we need to incorporate them into our accounts of democratic government. This book is an original contribution to the vigorous international debate about democratic authority and legitimacy.

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