Overview and Analysis of School Mathematics, Grades K—12

1976 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 440
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
The Future ◽  
K 12

The fallowing four articles may establish the direction that mathematics education will take in the future. Shirley Hill, who chaired the NACOME committee, outlines the context of the report and presents some of the significant points with regard to the mathematics curriculum, patterns of instruction, teacher education, and evaluation.

NACOME: Implications for Teaching K—12

1976 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 458-463
Author(s):  
Ross Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
School System ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Current State ◽  
Mathematics Program ◽  
K 12

The National Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (NACOME) has done the field of mathematics education a service by its preparation of the NACOME report, “Overview and Analysis of School Mathematics, Grades K–l2.” I feel that the Mathematics Teacher is also doing a service by publishing reactions to the NACOME report from the perspectives of three institutions concerned with school mathematics—elementary/secondary education. teacher education, and Morris Kline. From the viewpoint of a person who has responsibility for the mathematics program in a large school system, I feel that the information and recommendations contained in the report are very useful. I believe that my colleagues who are teachers and supervisors will find that the report tends to support many of their opinions about the current state of mathematics education. The report is particularly refreshing to me because it confirms and documents many of the convictions I had previously held.

scholarly journals Mathematics education and the dignity of being

Pythagoras ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Valero ◽  
Gloria García ◽  
Francisco Camelo ◽  
Gabriel Mancera ◽  
Julio Romero
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
Mathematics Classrooms ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Political Approach

On the grounds of our work as researchers, teacher educators and teachers engaging with a socio-political approach in mathematics education in Colombia, we propose to understand democracy in terms of the possibility of constructing a social subjectivity for the dignity of being. We address the dilemma of how the historical insertion of school mathematics in relation to the Colonial project of assimilation of Latin American indigenous peoples into the episteme of the Enlightenment and Modernity is in conflict with the possibility of the promotion of a social subjectivity in mathematics classrooms. We illustrate a pedagogical possibility to move towards a mathematics education for social subjectivity with our work in reassembling the notion of geometrical space in the Colombian secondary school mathematics curriculum with notions of space from critical geography and the problem of territorialisation, and Latin American epistemology with the notion of intimate space as an important element of social subjectivity.

Pegboard geometry

1965 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-274
Author(s):  
Lewis B. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
The Future ◽  
School Mathematics Curriculum

Geometry has now won for itself a place in the elementary school mathematics curriculum. Although emphasis varies from publisher to publisher, there is no question that geometry is included in each major series. The Cambridge Report urges a more distinguished place for it in the curriculum of the future.

One Point of View: Reclaiming School Mathematics

1990 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Portia Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
Design Change

The framers of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM 1989) call for a radical “design change” in all aspects of mathematics education. They believe that “evaluation is a tool for implementing the Standards and effecting change systematically” (p. 189). They warn, however, that “without changes in how mathematics is assessed, the vision of the mathematics curriculum described in the standards will not be implemented in classrooms, regardless of how texts or local curricula change” (p. 252).

College Preparatory Mathematics: Preparation for What?

1968 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-49
Author(s):  
Charles R. Eilber
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
College Preparatory ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Major Aspect ◽  
The Future ◽  
College Preparatory Mathematics ◽  
Mathematics Preparation ◽  
Preparatory Mathematics

DESPITE the great amount of attention focused on the secondary school mathematics curriculum in recent years, there remains a major aspect of the teaching of college preparatory mathematics which has been consistently overlooked. While there seems to be little question that the content and approach of the modern curricula are significant and relevant to the needs and purposes of the future mathematician, engineer, physicist, and statistician, the relevance of the secondary school college preparatory mathematics curriculum to the lives of the future historian, musician, teacher of English, or any articulate layman is doubtful.

Activities: Extending Problem-Solving Skills

1985 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Robert A. Laing
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Technological Society ◽  
K 12

Introduction: Recognizing that the mathematics curriculum in grades K-12 must include more than the concepts and skills of mathematics to prepare students to be productive and contributing members of a rapidly changing technological society, the Agenda for Action (NCTM 1980, 3, 4) recommends that problem solving be the focus of school mathematics in the 1980s.

Soundoff: Nctm's Standards, Curriculum Reform, And High School Mathematics Teachers

1990 ◽  
Vol 83 (7) ◽  
pp. 510-512
Author(s):  
William S. Hadley
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Major Obstacle ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
K 12 ◽  
High School Mathematics Teachers

With the release of NCTM's curriculum standards in the spring of 1989, emphasis on mathematics-curriculum reform at all levels K-12 has been renewed. Reform is obviously long overdue, but one major obstacle stands in the way of its achievement: the classroom teachers. Given t he proper opportunities, however, teachers can become the key to success.

Welcome to Our Focus Issue on Problem Solving

2003 ◽  
Vol 96 (8) ◽  
pp. 529
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Word Problems ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
National Council ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Strong Case ◽  
School Mathematics Curriculum

THE CALL FOR THIS FOCUS ISSUE BEGAN BY reminding readers that in 1980, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics made a strong case for including problem solving in the mathematics curriculum. Problem solving was not a new topic at that time—after all, George Pólya published his seminal work, How to Solve It, in 1945. However, the 1980 Agenda for Action publication marked the beginning of a period in mathematics education when the processes of problem solving received specific attention in the school mathematics curriculum. Problem solving became much more than solving word problems.

scholarly journals Pre-service teachers’ views about their mathematics teacher education modules

Pythagoras ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Faaiz Gierdien
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Mathematics Teacher Education ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Bachelor Of Education ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
The University ◽  
Teaching Implications

This article reports on the views of intermediate and senior phase pre-service teachers (PSTs) enrolled in mathematics education modules that attempt to teach both content and pedagogy. The PSTs are students in a four-year Bachelor of Education (BEd) model located in a faculty of education. Findings were analysed by means of an analytic framework that takes into account the university–school divide. Findings indicate that the PSTs position themselves in different ways with regard to their preparation for school mathematics teaching. Implications are considered, especially the PSTs’ affective views such as their anxiety and apprehension related to the discursive differences between the content in the university modules and school mathematics.

What's Going On…

1976 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-104
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Education Evaluation ◽  
National Science ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
K 12

The National Advisory Committee On Mathematics Education (NACOME) with financial support from the National Science Foundation, has assembled an extensive review of the current status of mathematics education–its objectives, current and innovative practices, and attainments–for grades K-12. The scope of this review is indicated by the chapter titles: Mathematics Curriculum Reform 1955-1975, Current Programs and Issues, Patterns of Instruction, Teacher Education Evaluation, Recommen ations and Perspectives. Single copies of this report, Over view and Analys is of School Mathematics, Grades K-12, are now available without charge from the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Suite 832, 2100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037.

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