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.

3 Best reflected in the handbook chapters, “Research on Teaching and Learning Mathematics: Two Disciplines of Scientific Inquiry” and “Problematic Features of the School Mathematics Curriculum,” and in the recent book Mathematics Classrooms That Promote Understanding.

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