Improving Mathematics Education Resources for Decision Making (2001) / Chapter Skim
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To ensure that this array of information reached the field in a coherent fashion, MSEB directed its initiative toward helping educators understand how to use these new resources to address key issues related to improving mathematics education. The result, Improving Mathematics Education: Resources for Decision Making, summarizes the major recommendations in eight documents related to mathematics education and provides an analysis of overlapping recommendations.
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· Principles and Standards for School Mathematics · Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics · How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School · Before It's Too Late: A Report to the Nation from the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 215 Century · Educating Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology: New Practices for the New Millennium · The Mathematical Education of Teachers · High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation Every Child Mathematically Proficient: An Action Plan of the Learning First Alliance The authoring groups for the reports in Improving Mathematics Education represent a range of constituencies and viewpoints. Four of the reports were produced by the National Research Council, whose report process is characterized by the deliberate inclusion of balanced viewpoints in committee composition and report review.
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It describes in general the problems and issues related to teacher education and the teaching of science, mathematics, and technology, and it makes policy recommendations that call for restructuring teacher preparation and professional development programs. Improving Mathematics Education has been designed to help inform stakeholders about the decisions they face, to point to recent research findings, and to provide access to the most recent thinking of experts on issues of national concern in mathematics education.
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In general, the references in this report should serve as a starting point for the interested reader, who can refer to the original documents for fuller discussions of the recommendations and, in some cases, suggestions for implementation. Improving Mathematics Education is designed to help educators build a critical knowledge base about mathematics education, recognizing that the future of the nation's students is integrally intertwined with the decisions we make (or fail to make)
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