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Article: Using curriculum-based measurement for formative instructional decision-making in basic mathematics skills.
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- Education
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- December 22, 2007
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Many students believe that math is something one learns about, but they do not understand that it is a tool for learning about other concepts. Mathematics is a language used to describe the relationship between objects, events, and time. Learning math requires that a student interacts with a system of symbols just as a person interacts with alphabetic symbols, syntactical and semantic rules when reading a book. Unfortunately, many students in the United States are not learning the "language" of math. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAER 2000) recently found that although the trends for improvements in math have increased in years 1990 to 2000, large ...