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Volume 3 of Bold Ventures provides detailed insights about three notable U.S. innovations in mathematics education: the development, dissemination and use of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards, a `grassroots' effort by teachers to develop and spread Contemporary Precalculus, and the Urban Mathematics Collaboratives' strategies for meeting the professional development needs of inner-city teachers. These cases were part of...

Examining the Examinations looks at the required advanced science and mathematics examinations taken by university-bound students in seven countries. This research focuses on topics covered, types of questions used, and performance expected from students. The book concentrates on comparisons of the examinations, illustrating their similarities and differences with selected questions taken from the actual examinations. The international compari...

This book presents comprehensive results from case studies of three innovations in mathematics education that have much to offer toward understanding current reforms in this field. Each chapter tells the story of a case in rich detail, with extensi ve documentation, and in the voices of many of the participants-the innovators, the teachers, the students. Similarly, Volume 2 of Bold Ventures pre­ sents the results from case studies of five inno...