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MATH EDUCATION REFERENCES

FOR PARENTS

Community School District 2 (CSD#2) Curricula Implementation

“New York City Urban Systemic Initiative,” NSF: http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/esr/sysinit/nyc.htm

“New York State Systemic Initiative,” NSF: http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/esr/sysinit/edgrp/si/demo/ny.htm

“Reconceptualizing Mathematics Teaching and learning Through Professional Development,” NSF grant abstract #9731424, updated November 1, 2000: http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=9731424&fmt=text

“Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: Not a Beginning, Not an End,” Susan Jo Russell, Hands On!, Volume 21, No.1, Spring 1998: http://www.terc.edu/handson/s98/russell.html

“Investigations – New York, New York,” The ARC Center’s Implementation Stories From the Field: http://www.comap.com/elementary/projects/arc/stories/newyork.htm

CSD#2 Curricula

Investigations in Number, Data and Space, TERC (K-5), Curriculum Descriptions: http://www.terc.edu/investigations/curr/html/curr-map.html

Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) (6-8), Unit Goals: http://www.math.msu.edu/cmp/UnitGoal.html

CMP Implementation Center: http://www.showmecenter.missouri.edu/showme/cmp.html

“ARISE: MMOW”s Vision,” Applications/Reform in Secondary Education (ARISE) is the COMAP project which led to the development of MMOW: http://www.comap.com/highschool/projects/mmow/arisemmowvision.htm

Curriculum Components of Course I, MMOW (to replace Algebra I), COMAP 1998:

http://www.comap.com/highschool/projects/mmow/CurriculumcomponentsC1.htm

Curriculum Components of Course 2, MMOW (to replace Geometry), COMAP 1998:

http://www.comap.com/highschool/projects.mmow/CurriculumComponentsC2.htm

Curriculum Components of Course 3, MMOW (to replace Algebra II), COMAP 1998:

http://www.comap.com/highschool/projects.mmow/CurriculumComponentsC3.htm

Content Comparatives to CSD#2 Curricula

“What Every Student Should Know And Be Able To Do,” by grade, Mathematics, NYC Board of Education: http://www.nycenet.edu/dis/whatdidyou/

Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve, California Department of Education, 1999: http://www.cde.ca.gov/board/pdf/math.pdf

Singapore Math and Science Books, by grade: http://www.singaporemath.com

Program Reviews

Program Reviews on Mathematically Correct: http://mathematicallycorrect.com/programs.htm

“An Evaluation of CMP,” R. James Milgram: ftp://math.stanford.edu/pub/papers/milgram/report-on-cmp.html

Math Education & Reform - General

“An Open Letter to United States Secretary of Education, Richard Riley,” Dr. David Klein, et al. Washington Post, November 18, 1999: http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/riley.htm

“Language and the Learning of Mathematics,” Frank Allen, NCTM Annual Meeting, 1988: http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/allen4.htm

“Repairing School Mathematics in the US,” Frank Allen, past NCTM president, 1998: http://mathematicallycorrect.com/report.htm

“Good Intentions are not enough,” Richard Askey, 1999: http://kleene.math.wisc.edu/~askey/ask-gian.pdf

“Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics,” Richard Askey, American Educator, Fall 1999: http://www.aft.org/publications/american_educator/fall99/amed1.pdf

“Math Lessons From Japan, The TIMSS and the Truth,” Wayne Bishop, LA Times, January 15, 1997: http://mathematicallycorrect.com/wbishop.htm

“Honest Follow-Through Needed on This Project,” Marian Kester Coombs The Washington Times, March 24, 1998: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mathman/honestft.htm

Address to California State Board of Education, E.D. Hirsch, Jr., April 10, 1997: http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/edh2cal.htm

“Reports of the AMS Association Resource Group,” Roger Howe, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 45 (2) February 1998: http://www.ams.org/notices/199802/comm-amsarg.pdf

“Open Letter on Mathematics Curricula Ignites Debate,” Allyn Jackson, “For Your Information,” Notices of the American Mathematical Society 44 (2) February 2000: http://www.ams.org/notices/200002/fyi.pdf

“Math Problems: Why the U.S. Department of Education’s recommended math programs don’t add up,” David Klein, from American School Board Journal, April, 2000: http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/usnoadd.htm

Written testimony before House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health & Human Services, Education and Related Activities, David Klein, April 4, 2000: http://mathematicallycorrect.com/house.htm

“High Achievement in Mathematics: Lessons from Three Los Angeles Elementary Schools,” The Brookings Institution, 2000: http://brookings.org/gs/brown/bc_report/2000/LosAngeles.pdf

“The Second Great Math Rebellion,” Tom Loveless, Education Week on the Web, October 15, 1997: http://www.educationweek.org/ew/1997/07love.h17

Written Testimony before House Committee on Education and the Workforce, R. James Milgram, February 2, 2000: http://www.house.gov/ed_workforce/hearings/106th/ecyf/fuzzymath2200/milgram.htm

“State Mathematics Standards,” Ralph A. Raimi & Lawrence S. Braden, 1998: http://www.edexcellence.net/standards/math.pdf

“Basic Skills Versus Conceptual Understanding: A Bogus Dichotomy in Mathematics Education,” H.Wu, American Educator, Fall 1999: http://www.aft.org/publications/american_educator/fall99/wu.pdf

“The Mathematician and the mathematics education reform,” Notices of the American Mathematical Society 43(1996), 1531-1537: http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~wu/reform2.pdf