The Influence of Programs from Other Countries on the School Mathematics Reform Curricula in the United States

1997 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Romberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Mathematics Reform

Arithmetic and history

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 488-491
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
History Of

One's understanding of his culture is enriched when the important historical events relating to the culture are examined from a quantitative point of view. Elementary school mathematics can help our pupils (and probably ourselves) make sense out of some events or happenings of the history of the United States.

Forum on teacher preparation: Development of elementary school mathematics teaching in the United States

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 428-437
Author(s):  
Francis J. Mueller ◽  
Paul C. Burns
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics

The methods component of mathematics education in the United States has seldom been static. Particularly interesting is the cyclic nature of recurring issues and their varying proposed soltllions.

How Do You Measure Up?

1985 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Gail S. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Metric Measurement

We hear a great deal about the United States going metric. Many busines es and indust ries have already done so. School mathematics texts increasingly feature metric measurement. Are you ready for the metric sytem? Do you understand it yourself, and can you teach it to other?

Connecting Research to Teaching: Block Scheduling and High School Mathematics Instruction

1996 ◽  
Vol 89 (9) ◽  
pp. 758-768
Author(s):  
Steven L. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Block Scheduling ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Block Schedules

Block scheduling is not a new phenomenon. It has been widely used in British Columbia, Ontario, and Alberta since the 1970s. In the United States, block schedules have become increasingly popular throughout the 1990s, and currently they are spreading to high schools in many regions.

Promising Research: The World's Largest Math Event: Promoting Mathematical Thinking

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 430-432
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Brahier ◽  
Melfried Olson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Real World ◽  
Mathematical Thinking ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
The World

The Great Sphinx in Egypt is about 73.2 m (240 ft.) long, including the paws, which are each 15.3 m (50 ft.) long. Would one of its paws fit in a typical classroom? Would it fit in the school hallway? If the 90 800 kg (200 000 lbs.) of copper sheeting that make up the Statue of Liberty were melted down into pennies, how many pennies could be produced? How high would the pennies stand if they were stacked on one another? In which city and state would you find the world's largest ball of twine? Where would you find the world's largest catsup bottle? Such questions were the focus of the World's Largest Math Event 4— Landmarks: Seeing the World by Numbers— in April 1998. All over the United States and throughout the world, tens of thousands of students, from kindergarten through college, participated in the event. With the emphasis that the NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989) places on having students use real-world phenomena as a context for the study of mathematics, the World's Largest Math Event is a popular program.

Promoting Local Change: Models for Implementing NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards

1992 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Mary M. Hatfield ◽  
Jack Price
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Change Models ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

For more than thirty years the mathematics education programs of the United States have been the subject of proposals for change. Such efforts as those of the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG), the University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics (UICSM), and the Madison Project were well intentioned but fell short of attaining the anticipated reform.

Secondary School Mathematics in Great Britain and the United States

1951 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 385-394
Author(s):  
William S. Brace
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Educational Methods ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
American Schools

I am very conscious of the honor done to me and to the teachers of Britain by your president in asking me to address you. My qualifications for talking about American schools and educational methods are very slight indeed compared with (hose of many of you here today, so I am quite sure that it is not on those grounds that I am being asked to speak to you. Perhaps it is that someone is a little suspicious of the report that I am going to curry baek to England, and is contemplating “bumping me off” if I haven't formed satisfactory impressions of this beautiful state of yours! For my own safety, then, I will say at once that I think that Colorado is one of the most beautiful places in the world, that the people of Colorado are among the most hospitable in the world, and that the schools of Denver, which are the only Colorado schools that I know much about, are among the best in the world.

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