The need to catalyze change in high school mathematics

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (6) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Robert Q. Berry ◽  
Matthew R. Larson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
International Student ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
National Council ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Math Instruction ◽  
National Assessment ◽  
International Student Assessment

Results on the National Assessment for Education Progress and the Program for International Student Assessment show that high school mathematics instruction is past due for a redesign. Despite calls for reform going back at least four decades, the structure of math instruction has remained largely the same. In April 2018, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics released Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics: Initiating Critical Conversations to promote discussion of the changes needed. Robert Berry and Matthew Larson, current and past presidents of NCTM, describe the arguments within this report, asserting that the math curriculum needs to help students understand the mathematics that’s part of daily life, that tracking of students and teachers should be abandoned, that instruction should involve all students as doers of math, and that all students should experience a common curriculum.

Using research in teaching: Notes from National Assessment: addition and multiplication with fractions

1976 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-142
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Carpenter ◽  
Terrence G. Coburn ◽  
Robert E. Reys ◽  
James W. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Upper Elementary ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
National Assessment ◽  
Mathematics Program

Development of computational skills with fractions has long been a part of the upper elementary and junior high school mathematics program. Current movements toward metrication have led some individuals to suggest that decimals will receive more attention in the mathematics curriculum with a corresponding de-emphasis on fractions. The suggestion may find an increased number of supporters, as recurring evidence indicates that pupil performance with fractions is discouragingly low. An alternative point of view is that although metrication may somewhat alter work with fractions, their importance within the structure of mathematics and to applications justifies their continued emphasis in the curriculum.

Mathematics in the Junior High School: What should be the nature and content of junior high school mathematics?

1955 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 413-415
Author(s):  
William David Reeve
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Junior High ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
National Council ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Full Support ◽  
School Movement

I do not think that the various departments, so called, in The Mathematics Teacher are equally interesting or equally valuable, but a new department, introduced in the January, 1955, issue, is one that I think should receive the support of all teachers of mathematics whether or not they are actually members of The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. I refer, of course, to the new department edited by Kinney and Dawson of Stanford University. It will have my full support because I think that we have made a failure, more or less, of the junior high school movement.

Gender, Parental Characteristics, and Financial Knowledge of High School Students: Evidence From Multicountry Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca G. Chambers ◽  
Carlos J. Asarta ◽  
Elizabeth N. Farley-Ripple
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Financial Knowledge ◽  
Literacy Assessment ◽  
School Students ◽  
International Student Assessment

This study examines the gender gap in financial literacy by using the Financial Literacy Assessment from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The analysis focuses on the influence of parents on their children's understanding of financial concepts, utilizing multilevel modeling procedures to examine variance among students, within schools, and within countries. Based on data from 18 countries, results suggest that a gender gap in financial knowledge favoring male high school students is present and that parents may influence their children's financial knowledge.

Scientific Investigations oF the Teaching of High School Mathematics Reported in 1932

1933 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 372-381
Author(s):  
H. E. Benz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
National Council ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Scientific Investigations ◽  
Original Report

About a year ago the present writer prepared a summary of scientific investigations of the teaching of high school mathematics. This summary was published as a chapter in the Eighth Yearbook of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and included material from 132 references selected chiefly because they met the usual criteria of scientific research. The present report represents an effort to bring this summary down to date by reporting similar studies which were published during 1932. The same classification is used in order to make it easy for the supplement to conform to the original report.

Field Project in Junior High School Mathematics

1945 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 327-328
Author(s):  
Gladys Pyatt
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Elementary Mathematics ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Laboratory Work ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
High School Mathematics

The idea is rapidly gaining recognition that elementary mathematics would profit greatly from the introduction of field and laboratory work. Arithmetic has too often been taught as a skill unrelated to life outside the classroom. If arithmetic is to be fully meaningful, greater care must be taken to assure understandings that function in daily life. In this paper is presented a unit of work that was carried out with pupils on the eighth grade level in which they were taken out of the classroom for observation and first hand information.

scholarly journals Use of Large Scale Assessment Finding in South Asia: An Experience of Nepal

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 80-90
Author(s):  
Chandra Mani Paudel ◽  
Ram Chandra Panday
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
National Assessment ◽  
Large Scale Assessment ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
Mathematics And Science

This paper tries to present results from a systematic review of literature that reviewed the large-scale assessments finding in the South Asian context especially focusing Nepal. The main objective of the LEAP programme is to reform the quality of learning in the Asia-Pacific region by developing capacity of the Member States to collect, analyze and utilize international and national assessment data identifying learning enablers. The review has identified the high order skills overshadowed by rote learning. It has also employed Item Response Theory (IRT) making assessments comparable and connected with the previous levels. International Assessments such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) collected vast amounts of data on schools, students and households. The use of education-related “big data” for evidence-based policy making is limited, partly due to insufficient institutional capacity of countries to analyze such data and link results with policies.

scholarly journals PENGEMBANGAN KURIKULUM MATEMATIKA UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN SISWA DALAM PENALARAN DAN PEMECAHAN MASALAH

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Yogi Anggraena
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
International Student ◽  
Mathematical Reasoning ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
National Council ◽  
Mathematical Literacy ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Study Results

The Trending topic in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) have become a new standard for mathematics learning. One of the objectives of the study from TIMSS and PISA is to know the students' abilities in reasoning, identifying, and understanding, and using the basic mathematics needed in daily life. Or in other words, students must have mathematical literacy. The concept of mathematical literacy is intended the ability of individuals to formulate, use, and interpret mathematics in various contexts. This includes mathematical reasoning and using mathematical concepts, procedures, facts, and equipment to describe, explain, and predict phenomena or events (OECD, 2013). Indonesia has participated in TIMSS and PISA studies several times, from the TIMSS and PISA study results, it shows that students have not been able to develop optimally about their thinking abilities in mathematics schools and are still low in ability (1) to understand complex information, (2) theory , analysis and problem solving, (3) using tools, procedures and problem solving and (4) conducting investigations. In 2014, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) stated that learning mathematics today is still too formal, lacks connection with the meaning, understanding, and application of mathematical concepts, and fails to give sufficient attention to the ability of reasoning and solving problem. These results indicate that there needs to be a change in curriculum orientation, which is not to burden students with content but prioritize the aspects of essential abilities needed by all citizens to participate in developing their country in the 21st century. Therefore it is necessary to develop a mathematics curriculum that enhances students' abilities in reasoning and problem solving in order to improve the quality of mathematics for students knowledge and skill in this global era.

scholarly journals LITERASI MATEMATIKA SISWA DALAM MENYELESAIKAN SOAL PROGRAMME FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSESSMENT (PISA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-70
Author(s):  
Janet Trineke Manoy ◽  
Marinda Rosita Sari
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Mathematical Literacy ◽  
School Students ◽  
Process Indicators ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Date Analysis ◽  
Mathematical Process

contenxts. This study aims to describe the mathematical literacy of class X high school students in solving PISA questions. Date collection wa carried out using tests and interviews. 2 questions level 4dan level 6 are given to students. Date analysis is based on PISA mathematical process indicators namely formulating, applying, and interpreting. The results showed that: in the process of formulating, students mentioned important information in the problem, how to slove it and what concepts would be used, as well as what was know and asked in the problem. In the process of applying students to design and implement strategies according to the information they have made, draw the required objects according to the questions given. In the process of interpreting, students explain the reasons why the conclusions they get are in accordance with the context of the problem given.

Notes and News

1920 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
National Council ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Local Organizations ◽  
Central Organization

A realization of the need of a central organization to foster the interests of high school mathematics and to secure a greater degree of co-operation between individual teachers and between local associations of teachers interested in secondary school mathematics impelled a group of mathematics teachers to assemble at Cleveland last February at the time of the meeting of the Department of Superintendence of the N. E. A. There were present at this meeting 127 teachers of mathematics representing twenty states and as many local organizations. At that time The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics was formed. A constitution was adopted and the following officers elected

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