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Introduction
Introduction
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Despite the dramatically increased role of mathematics in our society, mathematics classrooms in the United States today too often resemble their counterparts of a century ago., Many mathematics teachers still spend the bulk of their class time demonstrating procedures and supervising students while they practice those procedures. In numerous elementary and middle schools, time for learning mathematics is too brief.
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All too often, mathematics instruction serves to alienate students rather than to reveal to them the beauty and usefulness of mathematics. Despite its remarkable stabi I ity, school mathematics has changed somewhat in the United States over the past decade or so.
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This book, He/ping Children Learn Mathematics, is addressed to parents and caregivers, teachers, administrators, and policy makers, all of whom must work together to improve mathematics learning. The book concludes with lists of recommended actions for each of these groups.
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The book Adding It Up: He/ping Children Learn Mathematics can be purchased from the National Academy Press at 800-624-6242; it is also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9822.html. To disseminate the major conclusions of Adding It Up to a broader audience, a subcommittee of the Mathematics Learning Study Committee has overseen the production of this short book.
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