Education Week: New Tack on Math Promoted:
"Three years after calling for a reordering of elementary and middle school math curricula, the nation’s largest group of math teachers is urging a new approach to high school instruction, one that aims to build students’ ability to choose and apply the most effective problem-solving techniques, in the classroom and in life.
Cultivating those skills will make math more useful, and more meaningful, to students, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics argues in a document scheduled for release this week."
Read Draft Report Here: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12674770/“Focus-in-High-School-Mathematics-Reasoning-and-Sense-Making”-Draft-Report
"Three years after calling for a reordering of elementary and middle school math curricula, the nation’s largest group of math teachers is urging a new approach to high school instruction, one that aims to build students’ ability to choose and apply the most effective problem-solving techniques, in the classroom and in life.
Cultivating those skills will make math more useful, and more meaningful, to students, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics argues in a document scheduled for release this week."
Read Draft Report Here: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12674770/“Focus-in-High-School-Mathematics-Reasoning-and-Sense-Making”-Draft-Report