Resources
Textbooks
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Required Texts:
(Available at the bookstore)
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, 2000. NCTM: Reston, VA. 2000. (Can be accessed entirely online.)
- Course Packet
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Course Tools
Please bring to class a calculator, scissors, tape, ruler, and crayons or colored pencils.
Educational Resources
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Resources and Quotes
- Educating Americans for the 21st Century: http://www.nas.edu/nrc/
(National Science Board, 1983)
(This is...) A Plan of action for improving mathematics, science and technology education for all American elementary and secondary students so that their achievement is the best in the world by 1995
- Goals 2000: http://www.negp.gov/page3-7.htm
- Everybody Counts: http://www.napanet.net/~jlege/allcount.htm
A report to the nation on the future of mathematics education
(Washington, DC: National Research Council/Mathematical Sciences Education Board, 1989)
(from Summary)
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As technology has 'mathematicized' the workplace and as mathematics has permeated society, a complacent America has tolerated underachievement as the norm for mathematics education. We have inherited a mathematics curriculum, conforming to the past, blind to the future, and bound by a tradition of minimum expectations (page 5)
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Everyone depends on the success of mathematics education; everyone is hurt when it fails. Mathematics must become a pump rather than a filter in the pipeline of American education (page 11)
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Technical Resources
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