Mathematics Education part of the Education Reform Network

Improving Mathematics Education: Resources for Decision Making

Link: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10268.html

Designed to inform stakeholders about the decisions they face, this 60 page report is based on eight documents. Addresses questions such as: Does working in small groups help students to develop math proficiency? What should be taught? How? and much more. Succinct! More than 2,500 reports are free to read online. Categories include: Looking at Mathematics and Learning, The State of School Mathematics in the United States, Number: What Is There to Know?, The Mathematical Knowledge Children Bring to School, Developing Proficiency with Whole Numbers, Teaching for Mathematical Proficiency, and more.

• Cataloged: 06-28-03
• Contributor: Brenda Johnson
• Created: 2001
• Author/Creator: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SEARCH THIS BOOK Committee on Decisions That Count, Steve Leinwand and Gail Burrill, editors, Mathematical Sciences Education Board, Center for Education, National Research Council
• Publisher: The National Academies Press
• Resource Availability: 200 OK

This resource is cataloged under:

• Conforms To: NCTM Standards
• Educational Type: Best practice
• Educational Type: Educator's guide
• Educational Type: Reference
• Network/channel: Mathematics Education
• Network/channel: Mathematics Education: Issues in Mathematics Reform: Issues
• Network/channel: Mathematics Education: Professional Development: Resources
• Network/channel: Mathematics Education: Professional Development: School Improvement
• Resource Type: Text

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