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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. Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study

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    Work on the SSMCIS program began in 1965 [3] and took place mainly at Teachers College. [9] Fehr was the director of the project from 1965 to 1973. [1] The principal consultants in the initial stages and subsequent yearly planning sessions were Marshall H. Stone of the University of Chicago, Albert W. Tucker of Princeton University, Edgar Lorch of Columbia University, and Meyer Jordan of ...

  4. School Mathematics Study Group - Wikipedia

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    The School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) was an American academic think tank focused on the subject of reform in mathematics education.Directed by Edward G. Begle and financed by the National Science Foundation, the group was created in the wake of the Sputnik crisis in 1958 and tasked with creating and implementing mathematics curricula for primary and secondary education, [1] which it did ...

  5. 30 Math Puzzles (with Answers) to Test Your Smarts - AOL

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    Who says math can't be fun?! These math puzzles with answers are a delightful challenge. The post 30 Math Puzzles (with Answers) to Test Your Smarts appeared first on Reader's Digest.

  6. List of state achievement tests in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The following standardized tests are designed and/or administered by state education agencies and/or local school districts in order to measure academic achievement across multiple grade levels in elementary, middle and senior high school, as well as for high school graduation examinations to measure proficiency for high school graduation.

  7. School Mathematics Project - Wikipedia

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    The School Mathematics Project arose in the United Kingdom as part of the new mathematics educational movement of the 1960s. [1] It is a developer of mathematics textbooks for secondary schools , formerly based in Southampton in the UK.

  8. Timeline of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of pure and applied mathematics history.It is divided here into three stages, corresponding to stages in the development of mathematical notation: a "rhetorical" stage in which calculations are described purely by words, a "syncopated" stage in which quantities and common algebraic operations are beginning to be represented by symbolic abbreviations, and finally a "symbolic ...

  9. Teaching machine - Wikipedia

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    Edward L. Thorndike in 1912: "If, by a miracle of mechanical ingenuity, a book could be so arranged that only to him who had done what was directed on page one would page two become visible, and so on, much that now requires personal instruction could be managed by print". [14]