Math Revisions Add Emphasis on Basic Skills
After setting off dramatic changes in math instruction 11 years ago, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics this week is planning to unveil its latest version of standards for learning, teaching, and testing the subject.
The standards the group was to release April 12 at its convention in Chicago will place an expanded emphasis on basic skills and list specific tasks that students should accomplish at designated points in their K-12 educations, according to the president of the 100,000-member organization.
Such changes are intended to assuage critics of the 1989 document and its companions published in the 1990s, as well as to refocus teachers on the essence of what teaching mathematics entails, said Glenda T. Lappan, the NCTM president and a professor of mathematics at Michigan State...
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