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The Truth About The Revised NCTM Standards (PSSM)
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"Understanding the Revised NCTM Standards
Arithmetic is Still Missing!
by Bill Quirk
( wgquirk@wgquirk.com )
Contrary to Recent
Reports,
the NCTM
Has Not Changed Its Philosophy
They Still Call It
"Arithmetic"
Mastery of Basic Facts or
Derive Them
When Needed?
Mastery of Standard
Algorithms or
Student-Invented Algorithms?
Mastery of Fractions
or
Simple-Case
Methods for "Familiar Fractions"?
Liping Ma's Book: U.S.
Elementary
School Teachers Don't Understand Arithmetic
Not Subtle in
Connecticut:
Arithmetic is Obsolete
Role of Mathematicians:
Advice
Solicited,
Advice Received, Advice Ignored
Published in American
Educator (AFT),
But Also Ignored by The NCTM
Contrary to Recent Reports, the NCTM Has Not
Changed
Its Philosophy
On April 12, 2000, The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
(NCTM)
released Principles
and Standards for School Mathematics ( PSSM ), a 402 page
revision
of the NCTM Standards. The next day The New York Times reported:
"In an important about-face, the nation's most influential group of
mathematics
teachers announced yesterday that it was recommending, in essence, that
arithmetic be put back into mathematics, urging teachers to emphasize
the
fundamentals of computation rather than focus on concepts and
reasoning."
It was further reported that "the council added strong language to its
groundbreaking 1989 standards, emphasizing accuracy, efficiency and
basic
skills like memorizing the multiplication tables."
Compare the preceding New York Times quotes to the following
contradictory
quote, published by the NCTM (in the third PDF file, Commonsense
Facts
to Clear the Air ) under "News and Hot Topics" at NCTM
Speaks Out: Setting the Record Straight about changes in Mathematics
Education .
When calculators can do multidigit long "
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