Overview

MMAP's Response

MMAP took guidence from the NCTM Standards, research on learning, the concerns of middle school students, and conjectures about approach, content, and activity flow in classrooms in order to create curriculum materials that could work within national constraints for standards and accountability. We made several commitments to materials development and research:

to define and test the feasibility of an applications-based approach to learning math by creating and field testing a series of application units and assessments for middle school math classrooms;

to learn more about the ways that technologies might be integrated into the mathematics classroom through a research and development process;

to bring to the curriculum design process a collaborative community that included education researchers, teachers and teacher educators, curriculum developers, math-using professionals and students;

to work with teachers to learn about the issues they face as they make changes in their perspectives and practices; and,

to conduct research to improve on our materials design and to generate new understandings of mathematics teaching and learning.

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