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Parent Handbook
What
to Look For
Most
Important Teacher
Mathematics
in Your Home
Mathematics
in Daily Life
Helping
with Homework
Technology
Why
Modify the Curriculum
NCTM
Standards
Illinois
Learning Standards
Mathematics
Literature
Resources
for Parents
Math
Web Sites
The
Magic of Math 
Jackie
L. Cox
Clinical Instructor
Southern
Illinois University
Wham 137 Mail Code 4612
Carbondale, IL
Tom
Lewis
Fifth Grade Teacher
Jane Addams
3420
53rd Street
Moline, IL |
NCTM
Standards
The NCTM Standards suggest FIVE major shifts in mathematics
education.
Away From |
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Toward |
| Classrooms as simply a collection of individuals |
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Classrooms as mathematical communities |
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| The teacher as a sole authority for right answers |
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Mathematical evidence as verification |
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| Merely memorizing procedures |
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Logical and mathematical reasoning |
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| An Emphasis on mechanistic answer-finding |
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Conjecturing, inventing, and problem solving |
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| Treating mathematics as a body of isolated
concepts and procedures |
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Connecting mathematics, its ideas, and its
applications |
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STANDARDS
2000 Draft of the NCTM
Principles
and Standards for School Mathematics |
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