Raising Standard in Mathematics
Raising Standards in Mathematics Education: Values, Vision, and TIMSS Author(s): Donald MacNab Reviewed work(s): Source: Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2000), pp. 61-80 Published by: Springer Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3483276 . Accessed: 17/01/2013 04:00
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DONALD MACNAB
RAISING STANDARDS IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION: VALUES, VISION, AND TIMSS
ABSTRACT. This paper examines perspectiveson values, purpose and methodology in mathematicseducationin schools in the light of the ThirdIntemationalMathematicsand Science Survey (TIMSS) and currentdebates on standards. arguesthat standards atIt of tainmentin school mathematics closely connectedto belief systemsregarding are valueand purpose;thatthese systems do not always collectively offer a credibleand coherentvision for mathematicseducation which can be effectively implementedin school classrooms; and thatthis coherenceof vision is what to a largeextentcharacterises higherperformthe ing TIMSS countries.The paperforms partof a wider investigationinto the processes of change in education,with a particular focus on mathematics. KEYWORDS:mathematics,standards, TIMSS, values, vision
INTRODUCTION
Whatdo we value in mathematics
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DONALD MACNAB
RAISING STANDARDS IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION: VALUES, VISION, AND TIMSS
ABSTRACT. This paper examines perspectiveson values, purpose and methodology in mathematicseducationin schools in the light of the ThirdIntemationalMathematicsand Science Survey (TIMSS) and currentdebates on standards. arguesthat standards atIt of tainmentin school mathematics closely connectedto belief systemsregarding are valueand purpose;thatthese systems do not always collectively offer a credibleand coherentvision for mathematicseducation which can be effectively implementedin school classrooms; and thatthis coherenceof vision is what to a largeextentcharacterises higherperformthe ing TIMSS countries.The paperforms partof a wider investigationinto the processes of change in education,with a particular focus on mathematics. KEYWORDS:mathematics,standards, TIMSS, values, vision
INTRODUCTION
Whatdo we value in mathematics