MATHEMATICS IN CONTEXT

MATHEMATICS IN CONTEXT 2001, Education Development Center, in Contextis a comprehensive middle school MATHEMATICS curricu-lum for grades 5 through 8. It was developed by the Wisconsin Center forEducation Research, School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison andthe Freudenthal Institute at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Connections are a key feature of the program connections among topics, con-nections to other disciplines, and connections between MATHEMATICS and mean-ingful problems in the real world. MATHEMATICS in Contextemphasizes the dynam-ic, active nature of MATHEMATICS and the way MATHEMATICS enables students tomake sense of their world. In traditional MATHEMATICS curricula, the sequence of teaching often proceedsfrom a generalization, to specific examples, and to applications in in Contextreverses this sequence; MATHEMATICS originates from realproblems.

unit, including tests, quizzes, and suggestions for ongoing assessment. The guides also provide blackline masters for activities requiring students to have copies of the text page. Also available are two supplementary products for teachers: the Teacher Resource and Implementation Guide (TRIG) and Number Tools. The TRIG manual is a com-

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