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The Nctm Standards: Implementation, Kathleen M. Cauley, John Van De Walle, William T. Hoyt
The Nctm Standards: Implementation, Kathleen M. Cauley, John Van De Walle, William T. Hoyt
MERC Publications
In 1989 the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics published the "Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics." The NCTM standards provides benchmark statements about specific aspects of the curriculum and about evaluation against which school divisions can judge their own specific curricula. The Standards has been a major focus of mathematics education since 1990.
In the fall of 1992 the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium undertook a study to determine the extent to which local schools were implementing the NCTM Standards. The study of the schools in the Consortium focused on the broad themes of the Standards document: mathematics as …