Welcome to our Web page of reactions to the NCTM's Standards 2000 draft.  During the fall semester, graduate students were charged with responding to the draft in one of three ways:
 

• take exception to something written in the draft;
• develop a strong argument to bolster some position taken in the draft;
• implore the NCTM to consider something not addressed by the Standards 2000 draft that ... ought to be addressed.

If you like, you can click to read the assignment in its entirety.
 

Here are the eight papers.  Each paper is accompanied by a brief abstract summarizing the content of the longer paper.  You can view each paper in its entirety by clicking on the title, below.  Readers are welcome to e-mail comments to the professor, Duane A. Cooper.

Roni M. Ellington, The Importance of Incorporating the History of Mathematics Into the Standards 2000 Draft and the Overall Mathematics Curriculum (Abstract)

Jane X. Doe, Inclusion of Students with Special Needs in the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Abstract)

Jamison L. Hughes, Achieving Equity in the Classroom: Implications for Standards 2000 (Abstract)

Andy D. Jones, The Fifth Process Standard: An Argument to Include Representation in Standards 2000 (Abstract)

Robin M. Marcus, Discrete Mathematics: The Missing Standard Pre-K-12 (Abstract)

Mary Q. Public, Connecting Operation Concepts Across the Pre-K-8 Grade Bands (Abstract)

Maryrose L. Spriggs, Transition to a Standards 2000 Classroom Through the Problem Solving and Communication Standards (Abstract)

Eileen W. Tosi, The Use of Graphing Calculators in Middle School and High School Mathematics: Where is Their Place in the Standards and Why (Abstract)