Volume 45, Number 14 · September 24, 1998
The New New Math
By Martin Gardner
Multicultural and Gender Equity in the Mathematics Classroom: The Gift of Diversity (1997 Yearbook)
edited by Janet Trentacosta, by Margaret J. Kenney
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 248 pp., $22.00
Focus on Algebra: An Integrated Approach
by Randall I. Charles, by Alba González Thompson
Addison-Wesley, 843 pp., $56.00
Life by the Numbers: Math As You've Never Seen It Before
narrated by Danny Glover. Seven boxed videotapes produced by WQED, Pittsburgh
$129.00
Surveys have shown for many decades that the mathematical skills of American high school students lag far behind those of their counterparts in Japan, Korea, Singapore, and many European countries. In the United States whites do better than blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Males outscore females. Students from high socioeconomic backgrounds do better than those from lower strata.
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