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Top Achieving Countries’ Mathematics Curriculum

California 1997 Mathematics Standards

California 2007 Mathematics Standards

“Unfortunately, competitive examinations often encourage deception. The teachers must train their students to answer little fragmentary questions quite well. To achieve this, the teachers isolate each question from the whole of mathematics and create for this question alone a perfect language without bothering about Its relationships to other questions. Mathematics is no longer a monument but a heap.”Henri Lebesque

“One of the frailest of human faculties is the ability to remember isolated bits of information such as rules without understanding.” --Robert Wirtz

Think of Standards for Mathematical Practice As Research Themes

Two Options in 8th Grade: CCSS 8th grade course Algebra I

Some Advice from a University Mathematician about Curriculum

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