Undergraduate Biology Education Fails to Keep Pace, NAS National Research Council Report Finds

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 401-402
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Undergraduate Biology ◽  
National Research Council Report ◽  
Council Report

Computational Fluency, Algorithms, and Mathematical Proficiency: One Mathematician's Perspective

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 322-327
Author(s):  
Hyman Bass
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Strategic Competence ◽  
Computational Fluency ◽  
Procedural Fluency ◽  
National Research Council Report ◽  
Mathematical Proficiency ◽  
Mathematical Algorithms ◽  
Council Report

In recent years, few aspects of mathematics education have been as much discussed and debated as the notions of computational fluency and algorithms. A National Research Council report, Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics (Kilpatrick, Swafford, and Findell 2001), offers an image of what it means to have skill with mathematics, or mathematical proficiency. This concept is helpful for moving beyond these debates. Mathematical proficiency includes five components: conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, strategic competence, adaptive reasoning, and productive disposition (Kilpatrick, Swafford, and Findell 2001, p. 116). That these components are not separate but fundamentally intertwined is important to note. This article illustrates some of the ways in which the goal of computational fluency and an appreciation of mathematical algorithms are related to this larger concept of mathematical proficiency.

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