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Sunday, November 19, 2006

Curriculum Focal Points

As teachers and administrators, we have been looking forward to the latest document from NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics). I am urging all parents to download this document at www.nctm.org/focalpoints. This is the most important document to come along in many years and will help explain many math misconceptions that have been circulating Narragansett.

Fennell, current President of NCTM, makes this one statement (among others):

"What some refer to as basic skills (for example, multiplication facts, and fluency with the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers) have always been a fundamental core of elementary school mathematics. Always. But we want more. We want the children to understand the mathematics they are learning, and we want them to be able to solve problems, which is, in the long run, why we do mathematics."

Please download this document and read more or see me and I would be glad to make you a copy.

Susan Naysnerski

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