- Assessing True Academic Success: The Next Frontier of Reform - Dan Kennedy, Baylor School
Article from Mathematics Teacher 92, 462-66, September 1999. "Suppose that your doctor's idea of a successful medical practice is to teach his patients how to pass every diagnostic test that he gives to them. How will you ever know if you are healthy?
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- Beyond TERC - Linda Moran
Share constructive ideas with other parents and seek advice from Linda Moran, a licensed math teacher and author of the Beyond TERC lens and the Beyond TERC blog.
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- Carl Offner's Home Page - University of Massachusetts, Boston
Expository papers by Offner on mathematics and computer science (levels: advanced undergraduate to 1st-year graduate student): Repetitions of Words and the Thue-Morse Sequence; Finite Fields and Pseudo-Random Number Generation; Some Early Analytic Number
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- Center for the Development of Teaching (CDT) - Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)
A research and development center whose goal is to learn how teachers' practice can be transformed to support students' construction of knowledge. Currently focusing on mathematics and science teaching, the Center carries out research and action projects
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- Critical Issues in Mathematics (NCREL) - Pathways to School Improvement
Articles from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL). The Significance of the NCTM Standards; Ensuring Equity and Excellence in Mathematics; Locating, Using, and Integrating Internet-Based Mathematics Materials; Providing Hands-On,
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- Curriculum Issues - Beauregard Parish (Louisiana) Public Library
Links to sites with information about the new New Math, whole math, whole language, and traditional curriculum resources
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- Developing and Probing Understanding in Mathematics / Improving Geometry Teaching: Dhulikhel Experience - Bal Chandra Luitel
Two papers: one discusses understanding in mathematics, its development and assessment; the other describes a project to improve mathematics teaching and learning in a municipality of Nepal.
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- Discussion Groups (TEECH, TERC) - Teacher Enhancement Electronic Community Hall
A project that ran several interactive listserv discussions on topics of interest to and moderated by members the teacher enhancement PI community; descriptions and message archives for several of these are available here.
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- Educational Programs That Work (EPTW): Mathematics - U.S. Dept. of Education
The Catalogue of the National Diffusion Network's descriptions of exemplary educational programs in mathematics. A tabular summary of program services provides an overview of the programs. Individual program descriptions summarize audience, program goals,
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- Education News Parents Can Use - U.S. Department of Education
A TV series focusing on schools, learning and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. On the third Tuesday of each month during the school year, Education News airs live via satellite, offering parents and anyone else with an interest in education vital
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- The Electronic School - National Schools Boards Association (NSBA)
A supplement to The Executive Educator and The American School Board Journal magazines, published in cooperation with the Institute for the Transfer of Technology to Education (ITTE), a program of the NSBA. It seeks to be an editorially independent source
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- Empowering Teachers as Leaders [PDF file] - Paul M. Terry, University of Memphis
This article presents the need for what some view as a rather radical change in educational leadership. An argument for this change is proffered by reviewing the current leadership methodology and, for comparison, empowerment is explored as it relates
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- The EMPower Project - TERC
Extending Mathematical Power: A Math Curriculum for Adults, extends school mathematics reform to currently under-served populations so that they more effectively engage mathematical demands at work, at home as parents and caregivers, in the community,
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- ERIC Digests - Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Digests are short reports on topics of prime current interest in education, targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community. Each offers an overview of
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- Essays on Constructivism and Education - Tom O'Haver; Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation
An extensive collection of articles on constructivist teaching strategies, change in education, technology in the classroom, hypertext and cognitive flexibility, constructivist pedagogy readings, and more.
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- FamilyEducation Network
Articles, discussion groups, professional advice, suggestions, and other resources for children of preschool and younger, elementary school, middle school, and high school and beyond. Resources topics include activities, health and safety, homework help,
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- Finding Common Ground in K-12 Mathematics Education - Mathematical Association of America
"Starting point" documents, designed to advance the discourse about how to improve K-12 mathematics teaching and learning, that emerged from MAA-convened pilot meetings between mathematicians and mathematics educators thought to be strongly aligned with
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- Getsmarter.org - Council on Competitiveness
An animated and interactive testing and learning site. "The Real Challenge" is a timed test, in either math or science at various grade levels, comparable to that used in the Third International Math and Science Study (TIMSS). After completing the assessment,
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- Getsmarter.org - Council on Competitiveness
A free web site designed to help improve math and science education. Interactive quizzes, games, and tutorials allow students to learn more about specific topics and improve their skills. MSTV, a series of interactive modules, shows how math and science
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- The Greater Philadelphia Secondary Mathematics Project - The Greater Philadelphia Secondary Mathematics Project
A support site for the systemic implementation of professional development using nationally validated, exemplary, standards-based secondary mathematics curricula in the Greater Philadelphia region. News and resources include edited dialogues about the
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- History and Reform - Bal Chandra Luitel
The author's curricular history is presented as a basis for reconceptualising the meaning of curriculum through the process of biographical and autobiographical inquiry, to help a learner understand the meaning of curriculum within his/her socio-economic
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- Home Page of Andrei Toom, André Toom - Andrei Toom, Department of Statistics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
The home page of one of the developers of the Toom-Cook, or Toom-3 algorithm, a method of multiplying two large integers. Toom's English-language mathematics articles, published in journals such as the Journal of Statistical Physics, include "Non-Ergodic
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- Horizon Research, Inc.
A private research firm located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, that specializes in work related to science and mathematics education. Recent project include Looking Inside the Classroom, A Study of K-12 Mathematics and Science Education in the United
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- The Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP) - Chicago, Univ. of Illinois
A Model for Mathematics Education Reform. A four-year, problem based mathematics curriculum for high schools, to meet the needs of both college-bound and non-college-bound students. IMP is designed to replace the four-course sequence typical of most high
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- The International Netcourse Teacher Enhancement Coalition (INTEC) - The Concord Consortium
An online professional development course that introduces inquiry-based teaching and learning to mathematics and science classrooms: network-based netcourses are designed to engage teachers in their own investigations, supplying skills, a knowledge of
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- James P. Dildine - James P. Dildine
Interactive math lessons for exploring parabolas, triangle areas, Pythagorean triples, triangle angle sums (powered by a Cabri Java applet), cancer and mathematics (image analysis, and determining the area and perimeter of non-regular figures), systems
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- The Late Professor Morris Kline - Mark Alder
Read Kline's books Why Johnny Can't Add and Why the Professor Can't Teach; his lecture "Pea Soup, Tripe, and Mathematics"; and a bibliography of his publications.
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- Learning & Mathematics Discussion Sessions - Math Forum
Newsgroup discussions inspired by recent work on how students learn mathematics among mathematicians, teachers of mathematics, and students of educational psychology that occurred on the Math Forum's newsgroup geometry.pre-college. Much of the work around
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- Lectures (TEECH, TERC) - Teacher Enhancement Electronic Community Hall
Transcripts of lectures by members of the teacher enhancement community, including such broad topics as systemic reform, electronic communities, professional development, standards, evaluation, TIMSS, etc.
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- LSC-Net - TERC, Inc.
Best practices, issues, and resources for the National Science Foundation's 72 Local Systemic Change (LSC) Projects across the country. Each of these projects provides teacher professional development and curriculum innovation in the areas of math and/or
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- Making Mathematics Work for All Children: Issues of Standards, Testing, and Equity - Alan H. Schoenfeld, University of California, Berkeley
"To fail children in mathematics, or to let mathematics fail them, is to close off an important means of access to society's resources." This article discusses the potential for providing high quality mathematics instruction for all students. Sections
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- MARS - Mathematical Assessment Resource Service - Michigan State University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Shell Center for Mathematical Education at the University of Nottingham, England
The Mathematics Assessment Resource Service (MARS) works with districts and states on performance assessment design and implementation, and on professional development for designers and teachers. MARS provides consultancy and training of two broad kinds:
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- mathed-news - Jerry Becker
Postings from Jerry Becker that cover a wide range of content relating to the landscape of mathematics education. The list is intended for mathematics teachers at all levels and others interested in mathematics education, as well. Newspaper articles,
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- Math Education Page - Henri Picciotto
Math education articles by the author, with an emphasis on algebra. A New Algebra: Tools, Themes, Concepts, an article that summarizes the pedagogical and curricular thinking behind ATTC; Early Mathematics: A Proposal for New Directions, a chapter in
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- Mathematically Sane
Advocates of rational reform of school mathematics. The site includes a mission statement; articles and reports about mathematics reform; evidence and accounts of successful math reform (both anecdotal and data-based); handouts and resources for talking
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- The Mathematical Miseducation Of America's Youth - Michael T. Battista
A Phi Delta Kappan article that includes sections entitled The Nature of School Mathematics, The Science of Learning Mathematics, Attending to Students' Mathematical Constructions, and Genuine Issues in Improving Mathematics Learning, including "the myth
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- Mathematics Education Collaborative
The Mathematics Education Collaborative provides educational communities with support to accomplish the goal of improved mathematics instruction for all. It provides professional development courses, hosts conferences, and offers four libraries of web
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- Mathematics Education in China Discussions - Math Forum
A discussion group dedicated to questions raised by Dianzhou Zhang, Professor of Mathematics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, who co-chairs a commmittee charged with redesigning high school mathematics education in all of China. Read and browse
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- Mathematics TEKS Toolkit - The Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin
A resource center for implementing the mathematics Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), and for improving mathematics programs in Texas. Organized into eight sections: Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills, which outlines TEKS by grade level and
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- Math For The Next Generation: Understanding What Your Kids Are Learning - Family.com, Disney Online
The newest "new math" phobia: "This isn't math the way I remember it." This numeracy essay for parents contains sections titled The New "New Math" (a brief history of mathematics teaching following the Sputnik launch), Implementing the New [NCTM] Standards,
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- math-learn - Rex Boggs, moderator
The math-learn mailing list is for those interested in improving the teaching and learning of mathematics. Read and search archived messages. To subscribe, visit the math-learn Yahoo! Group page.
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- Math Medley - Pat Kenschaft; WebCT
A weekly call-in talk radio show, hosted by Pat Kenschaft from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Montclair State University. Each show features an interview with an exciting guest discussing a topic with an underlying theme of mathematics such
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- Math Solutions Newsletter - Marilyn Burns Education Associates
A free quarterly newsletter that provides up-to-date classroom activities and opportunities for year-round professional development, including five-day summer courses, as well as resources for K-8 teachers that model effective teaching and extend the
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- The Math Wars: California Battles It Out over Mathematics Education Reform - Allyn Jackson; Notices of the AMS
A PDF article looking pro and con at some reform materials: MathLand and the Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP), and a discussion of the NCTM Standards in the context of reactions against reform in California. Part I, From the Notices of the AMS, June/July
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- Mid-Atlantic Eisenhower Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education - RBS
Research for Better Schools (RBS) has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education to develop and operate the Mid-Atlantic Eisenhower Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education. The Consortium engages groups and individuals at all levels of the
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- Mobilizing Minds: Teaching Math and Science in the Age of Sputnik - National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
The 1957 launch of Sputnik, combined with a burgeoning school age population, catalyzed reform in mathematics and science teaching in the United States. This on-line exhibit presents objects from the time of Sputnik, including books and apparatus associated
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- MSPnet: The Math and Science Partnership Network - TERC
The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Program is a major research and development effort to understand and improve the performance of K-12 students in mathematics and science. MSPnet is their electronic community. Learn about individual partnership projects;
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- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) - U.S. Department of Education
The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations. NCES collects, collates, analyzes, and reports complete statistics on the condition of American education; conducts and publishes
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- National Center for Research on Teacher Learning (NCRTL) - National Center for Research on Teacher Learning (NCRTL)
Based in the College of Education at Michigan State University, NCRTL conducts research in teacher education. Brochures and publications (special reports, craft papers, research reports, technical series, issue papers, conference series, and video packages)
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- The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA)
Online library and bibliographic database; technical, language education, and classroom materials links; conferences and meetings calendar; discussion group; Newsline (weekly bulletin); and state resource listings. Read classroom centered practices for
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