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Curriculum in Mathematics Education

Purpose of the Course:

To educate teachers to the history of curriculum development and the fundamental concepts that drive the development of curriculum. To familiarize teachers with past and present curriculum developments that influence the present day curriculum.

To understand the motives of chance and the psychological theories that drive curriculum.

To develop curriculum relative to the new National and State Standards. Scope of the Course:

I. Historical Overview
A. Concepts of School Setting

B. Causes of Change

C. Emergence of the PEA Movement

D. Mathematics Education 1894 - 1952

II. Concepts of Learning
A. Learning as a Growth Process

B. Learning as Conditioning

III. Organizing Learning Experiences
A. The Scientific Movement

B. The Child Study Movement

C. The New Math Movement

D. Back to Basics Movement

E. The Reform Movement

IV. Concepts of Curriculum Design.
A. Psychological Theories

B. The Structure of Curriculum Design

i) Behavioral Approach

ii) Structuralist Approach

iii) Formalist approach

iv) Cognitive Approach

C. Designing a Model for Implementation
V. Experimental Curriculum
Programs

University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics

Madison Project

School Mathematics Project

School Mathematics Study Group

Elements of Mathematics

Comprehensive School Mathematics Program

Oregon Project - Mathematics Resource Project

Quantitative Literacy Series

Statistics in Your World

University of Chicago School Mathematics Program.

Michigan Middle School Project

Saxon Math.

Experiences in Mathematics (Project Math)

VI. Present and the Future
A. NAEP

B. NCTM Standards

C. New Compact for Learning

D. Authentic Assessment

E. NYSE Standards

F. The Sabre-tooth Curriculum