Math Education Reference List for Parents

 

Summary and Opinion on the

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards Reform

 

 

 

1. “The Second Great Math Rebellion,” Tom Loveless, previously an associate professor  

of public policy at Harvard University, currently at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC Education Week on the Web, October 15, 1997

http://www.educationweek.org/ew/1997/07love.h17

 

2.      “Repairing School Mathematics in the US,” Frank Allen, past president of the NCTM, posted on the “Mathematically Correct” web site, 1998

http://mathematicallycorrect.com/report.htm

 

3.      “Professor Harold Stevenson on the NCTM Standards,” posted on the “Mathematically Correct” web site. Dr. Stevenson is the co-author (with James Stigler) of What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education and the Director of the TIMSS Ethnographic Case Studies Project

http://mathematicallycorrect.com/hwsnctm.htm

 

4.      “Written Testimony of R James Milgram,” Dr R James Milgram, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University. Presented before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, Joint Hearing of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families and the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning, February 2, 2000

http://www.house.gov/ed_workforce/hearings/106th/ecyf/fuzzymath2200/milgram.htm

 

 

Mathematics and Scientific Community’s Response to

US Secretary of Education Richard Riley’s endorsement of NCTM Standards Based Curricula

 

5.      “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  

 

6.      “Response to the Open letter from Dr David Klein and Others,” Secretary of Education Richard Riley. January 6, 2000

http://www.ed.gov/News/Letters/000106.html

 

7.      “Open Letter on Mathematics Curricula Ignites Debate,” Allyn Jackson in “For Your Information”, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 44 (2) February 2000

http://www.ams.org/notices/200002/fyi.pdf

 

 

Mathematics Community’s Evaluations and Suggestions During the Revisions of

the 1989 NCTM Standards

 

8.      “The AMS and Mathematics Education: The Revision of the NCTM Standards,” Roger Howe, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 45 (2) February 1998

http://www.ams.org/notices/199802/howe.pdf

           

9.      Second Report from the Task Force, Mathematical Association of America’s Presidential Task Force on the NCTM Standards, posted on MAA Online, June, 1997

http://www.maa.org/past/maanctm3.html

 

 1989 NCTM Standards

 

10.  “Table of Contents,” Curriculum and Evaluation Standards, 1989 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

http://standards-e.nctm.org/1.0/89ces/Table_of_Contents.html

 

11.   “Frequently Asked Questions,” posted on the NCTM web site, Dec.1999

http://www.nctm.org/about/frequently.requested/nctm.faq.version1.htm

 

 

12.   “Educating the Public about School Mathematics,” Zalman Usiskin, transcript of talk presented at the Fifteenth Annual UCSMP Secondary Conference, 1999  in UCSMP Newsletter, Winter 1999-2000  No URL

 

13.  “Overview of the NCTM Curriculum Standards (1989)” &“Welcome Page,” “Project Arise” Hogan Senior High School web site. (The high school was one of 15 national pilot sites for the Mathematics: Modeling Our World curriculum)

http://www.napanet.net/~jlege/standard.htm

http://www.napanet.net/~jlege/

 

 

 

 

 

 

District 2 Letters to Parents/Hand-outs

 

14.   “Letter to CSD#2 Parents,” Superintendent Anthony Alvarado, May, 1997 No URL

 

15.   “A Parent’s Guide to the New Mathematics Standards and Curricula in CSD#2,” Superintendent Elaine Fink, January, 1999  No URL

 

16.  “NCTM’s Standards for Mathematics, K-12,” Charles Thompson and Edward Rathmell, Mathematics Teacher, May 1998  No URL

 

Fourth Grade Comparative

 

17.  “Summary of Changes in Content and Emphasis in K-4 Mathematics,”   National Council of Teaches of Mathematics Standards/ grades K-4, 1989  (distributed by the District 2 math office)  No URL

 

18.  “About TERC,” section of  the Technical Education Research Center web site

http://www.terc.edu/aboutterc/aboutterc.html

 

19.  Investigations in Number, Data and Space Grade 4 Units, TERC http://www.terc.edu/byterc/invest4unit.html

 

20.  “What Every Student Should Know And Be Able To Do – Mathematics, Grade Four,” pgs 7,8, 9 & “title page,” pg 1, New York City Board of Education

http://www.nycenet.edu/dis/whatdidyou/four.htm

 

21    Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools – Grade Four, California Department of Education, 1999

http://www.cde.ca.gov/board/pdf/GR4.pdf

Introductory Page (with links to pdf version for each grade), Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve

http://www.cde.ca.gov/board/mcs_intro.html

 

22    Mathematics Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools – Grade Four, Virginia Board of Education, 1995

http://www.pen.k12.va.us/go/Sols/math.htm/#GradeFour

Introductory Page (with links to each grade in the text), Mathematics Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools

http://www.pen.k12.va.us/go/Sols/math.html

 

23    Primary Mathematics, contents of 4A & 4B, Curriculum Division of the Singapore Ministry of Education

http://www.singaporemath.com/contents_PM4a.htm

Home Page (with links to each grade), Family Things, publisher of Singapore Math and Science Books

http://www.singaporemath.com

 

 
Seventh Grade Comparative

 

24    Summary of Changes in Content and Emphasis in 5-8 Mathematics,” National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards/ grades 5-8, 1989 (distributed by the District 2 Math Office)  No URL

 

25    “CMP Philosophy,” a section from Show-Me-Center, CMP Implementation center, University of Missouri at Columbia web site

http://www.showmecenter.missouri.edu/showme/showcase/cmp/philosophy.html

 

26    Seventh Grade Units, a section of Unit Goals, pgs 4-8 Connected Mathematics Project (CMP)

http://www.math.msu.edu/cmp/UnitGoal.html

“Over-arching Goal of CMP”, CMP

http://www.math.msu.edu/cmp/O-Goals.html

 

27    “What Every Student Should Know and Be Able To Do – Mathematics, Grade Seven,” pgs 7-11 & “title page,” pg 1, New York City Board of Education

http://www.nycenet.edu/dis/whatdidyou/seven.htm

 

28    Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools – Grade Seven, California Department of Education, 1999

http://www.cde.ca.gov/board/pdf/GR7.pdf

Introductory Page (with links to pdf version for each grade), Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve

http://www.cde.ca.gov/board/mcs_intro.html

 

29    Mathematics Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools – Grade Seven, Virginia Board of Education, 1995

http://pen.k12.va.us/go/Sols/math.html#gradeSeven

Introductory Page (with links to each grade in the text), Mathematics Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools

http://www.pen.k12.va.us/go/Sols/math.html

 

 

 

30    New Elementary Mathematics, contents of Math I (suitable for seventh grade) aligned with the Mathematics Syllabus issued by the Singapore Ministry of Education http://www.singaporemath.com/contents_PM4a.htm

“Secondary Mathematics” (an introduction to the four-year New Elementary Mathematics course books, grades 7-10) Family Things, publisher of Singapore Math and Science Books

http://www.singaporemath.com/secondary_math.htm

 

31    “Year 7 Mathematics Syllabus”, reproduced and adapted from Mathematics Higher Level, 1998 International Baccalaureate Organisation, by the Chinese International School Mathematics Department, Hong Kong

http://is7.pacific.net.hk/~cismath/Year7.htm

“Curriculum Overview, grades 7,8,9”, Chinese International School Mathematics Department

http://is7.pacific.net.hk/~cismath/curriculum.htm

 

 

CSD #2 High School Program

 

32    “Introduction to Mathematics: Modeling Our World (MMOW),” posted at the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP) web site, the non-profit organization which developed the MMOW curriculum

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

 

33    “ARISE: MMOW”s Vision,”, posted at the COMAP web site, 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

 

34    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

 

Third International Math and Science Study (TIMSS)

 

35    “Overview and Key Findings Across Grade Levels,” a section of “Highlights