Mathematics Education

Mathematics Education Reform

The Forum's Internet Mathematics Library provides a number of pages of links to resources for Math Education Reform. A few selections from these pages are offered below.

  Achieving Quality in Undergraduate Mathematics - Mathematical Sciences Education Board

The Mathematical Association of America and the AMATYC have established guidelines for mathematics departments that are discussed in the electronic ... more>>

  Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) - Brown University

The Annenberg Institute develops, shares and acts on knowledge that improves outcomes of schooling in America, especially in urban communities and in ... more>>

  Habits of mind: an organizing principle for mathematics curriculum (Connected Geometry) - Cuoco, Goldenberg, Mark; Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)

A curriculum the goal of which is not to train large numbers of high school students to be university mathematicians, but rather to allow high school ... more>>

  Honest Open Logical Debate (HOLD)

Debate on math reform - an organization of people in the Palo Alto (California) community who feel that some of the changes being made in the name of ... more>>

  Looking for Gauss... or Waiting for Godot - Mathematical Sciences Education Board (MSEB)

Report on a 1994 symposium, "Mathematics Reform Goes to College," held at the National Academy of Sciences, which addressed three major areas: ... more>>

  Math Education Page - Henri Picciotto

Math education articles by the author, with an emphasis on algebra. A New Algebra: Tools, Themes, Concepts, an article that summarizes the pedagogical ... more>>

  Mathematically Correct: 2+2=4 - Paul Clopton

A site devoted to the concerns raised by parents and scientists about the invasion of schools by the New-New Math and the need to restore basic skills ... more>>

  Mathematically Sane

Advocates of rational reform of school mathematics. The site includes a mission statement; articles and reports about mathematics reform; evidence and ... more>>

  The Mathematical Miseducation Of America's Youth - Michael T. Battista

A Phi Delta Kappan article that includes sections entitled The Nature of School Mathematics, The Science of Learning Mathematics, Attending to ... more>>

  Mathematicians and Education Reform Forum (MER)

MER Forum seeks to promote educational reform efforts within the mathematics community through a diverse program of national workshops, publications, ... more>>

  Mathematics and Motivation - Liza Ewen; Math Forum

An annotated bibliography offering a collection of articles, chapters and Math Forum discussions that begin to address how student motivation affects ... more>>

  Parrot Math - Thomas C. O'Brien

A Phi Delta Kappan article that responds to the back-to-basic movement, discussing test items and data from a study by the National Assessment of ... more>>

  President's Column (MAA) - Ken Ross

MAA President Ken Ross wrote this column for Focus on the need to connect K12 and college-level ... more>>

  The Teacher as Facilitator - Classroom Compass

The spring 1994 issue of Classroom Compass, Working for Reform, looks at the idea of teacher as facilitator - a basic part of the reformed classroom. ... more>>

  What's Noteworthy on Learners, Learning & Schooling - Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL)

"The major challenges for educational reform today are putting the pieces together to create sustainable systemic change and scaling up systemic ... more>>

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