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Article: NCTM/Exxon Education Foundation K-3 Math Specialist Project. (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)
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- Teaching Children Mathematics
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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In 1987 the Exxon Education Foundation began its K-3 Math Specialist Project to improve teaching and learning mathematics at the early elementary school level. The decision to focus on the early grades was prompted by research showing that interest and ability in mathematics tend to decline after grade 3. The purpose of the project was to test whether changing the way mathematics is taught in the early grades would affect children's understanding of, and attitude toward, the discipline in future grades.
Following the publication of the NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989), whose vision of mathematics education is consonant with the ...