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2. New Math - Wikipedia

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   As a result of this controversy, and despite the ongoing influence of the New Math, the phrase "new math" was often used to describe any short-lived fad that quickly becomes discredited [citation needed] until around the turn of the millennium [7] [better source needed]. In 1999, Time placed it on a list of the 100 worst ideas of the 20th century.

3. Investigations in Numbers, Data, and Space - Wikipedia

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   Investigations in Numbers, Data, and Space is a K–5 mathematics curriculum, developed at TERC [1] in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The curriculum is often referred to as Investigations or simply TERC. Patterned after the NCTM standards for mathematics, it is among the most widely used of the new reform mathematics curricula.

4. List of mathematical functions - Wikipedia

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   Quintic function: Fifth degree polynomial. Rational functions: A ratio of two polynomials. nth root. Square root: Yields a number whose square is the given one. Cube root: Yields a number whose cube is the given one.

5. Mathematics education in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Mathematician George F. Simmons wrote in the algebra section of his book Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell (1981) that the New Math produced students who had "heard of the commutative law, but did not know the multiplication table." [205] By the early 1970s, this movement was defeated. Nevertheless, some of the ideas it promoted still lived on.

6. Mathematics - Wikipedia

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   Mathematics is essential in the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, finance, computer science, and the social sciences. Although mathematics is extensively used for modeling phenomena, the fundamental truths of mathematics are independent of any scientific experimentation.

7. Saxon math - Wikipedia

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   The Saxon Math 1 to Algebra 1/2 (the equivalent of a Pre-Algebra book) curriculum [3] is designed so that students complete assorted mental math problems, learn a new mathematical concept, practice problems relating to that lesson, and solve a variety of problems. Daily practice problems include relevant questions from the current day's lesson ...