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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.
Manipulatives used in the program are items commonly found in the classroom, such as scissors, graph paper, string, and integer chips. ... There were several influences on why and how we developed Mathematics in Context. First, ... developed to teach students to solve nonroutine problems. As a consequence of Students need
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