| National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) |
Website for the world’s largest organization dedicated to improving mathematics education |
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View NCTM’s Standards documents for school mathematics, including Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (some portions are members only) |
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Information about Focus in High School Mathematics and resources supporting its implementation |
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Provides lesson plands and other resources illuminating NCTM’s vision for school mathematics |
| Other Math Education Organizations |
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AMTE is the largest professional organization devoted to the improvement of mathematics teacher education, including preservice and professional development. |
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An organization promoting leadership in mathematics education, including mathematics supervisors |
| E-mail Groups and Blogs |
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All the latest news and information related to mathematics education |
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A discussion group centered on issues related to mathematics education reform. |
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A blog from the employees of Key Press discussing a range of issues related to mathematics education and the Common Core State Standards |
| Curriculum Projects |
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| Elementary Grades |
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Designed to help all children understand fundamental ideas of number and operations, geometry, data, measurement and early algebra. |
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Distinguished by its focus on real-life problem solving, balance between whole-class and self-directed learning, emphasis on communication, facilitation of school-family cooperation, and appropriate use of technology. |
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Focuses on integrating math, science and language arts, based on the ideas that mathematics is best learned by solving problems in real-world contexts and that a curriculum should balance conceptual understanding with procedural skill. |
| Middle Grades |
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Helps students and teachers develop understanding of important mathematical concepts, skills, procedures, and ways of thinking and reasoning, in number, geometry, measurement, algebra, probability and statistics. |
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Encourages students to investigate mathematical concepts through exploratory, activity-based learning. |
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Motivates the most reluctant leaner with its realistic contexts and multiple strategies while it challenges the accelerated learner to discover, explore, and understand rich math concepts. |
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Aim to promote mathematical literacy, including an ability to explore, conjecture, reason logically and to use a variety of mathematical methods for problem solving |
| High School |
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Integrates traditional material with additional topics recommended by the NCTM Standards, such as statistics, probability, curve fitting, and matrix algebra. IMP units are generally structured around a complex central problem. |
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Key features: (a) integrated development of fundamental concepts and skills; (b) student-centered investigations of important mathematics, in the context of realistic problems and applications; (c) impressive new technology tools. |
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An integrated core curriculum for high school that is based on the premise that students learn best when they are actively involved in the process. |
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Engages students to enter a lifelong journey of mathematical learning through hands-on and activity-based work. Involves real world contexts and incorporates a modeling approach using technology. |
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Students learn math and science the way that practicing scientists and mathematicians do. They learn when something grabs their attention…when the content is relevant to their lives. |
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A comprehensive high school mathematics program that is problem-based, student-centered, and organized around the familiar themes of Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, and Precalculus. |
