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Learning about resources to support instructional innovation (D7.3)
Notes in preparation for the introduction of innovative middle school
curricula (by Raffaella Borasi)
Preface:
- how these curriculum projects came about (i.e., brief history about
NSF call for proposal for the creation of curricula informed by the NCTM
Standards)
- how we are considering them (i.e., possible resources so that we do
not reconstruct everything from scratch AND to validate what WE have done/can
do)
Introduction to the curricula:
- common characteristics:
- based on NCTM Standards
- organized around big ideas of mathematics
- teaching for understanding
- emphasizing connections and applications/making math meaningful
- involving mathematical investigations
- using multiple representations
- use of technology (to various extent)
- quick look at different units produced -- show slides/handouts prepared
by the curriculum themselves to advertise their products for at least each
of the following projects developed for various levels of schooling:
- Elementary grades:
- "Investigations in Numbers, Data and Space" ( TERC)
- Middle School:
- "Connected Mathematics Project" (CMP) (Michigan State
University)
- Mathematics in Context (MiC) (University of Wisconsin/Freudenthal
Institute)
- Seeing and Thinking Mathematically (EDC)
- High School:
- Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP)
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