Alan Schoenfeld

Friday 2:00 - 2:50 PM Session

F157
General
Standards, Equity, and the Math Wars
An underlying motivation for the 1989 NCTM Standards was to address consistent inequities in mathematics. What progress has been made? More broadly, what sense can we make of the political climate surrounding the math wars, which have recently come to the Pacific Northwest?
Meydenbauer
Theater
The speaker has made the following files available for download:
1) Standards, Equity, and the Math Wars Powerpoint

2) article, "Making Mathematics Work for All Children, Issues of Standards, Testing, and Equity"

3) article, "The Math Wars"

4) article, "Problem Solving in the United States, 1970-2008: research and theory, practice and politics"