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Peer reviewedMeyer, Margaret R. – NASSP Bulletin, 1997
Describes Mathematics in Context, a middle-level mathematics curriculum developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands. Instead of proceeding from a generalization to specific examples, the math originates in real problems; conversely, the mathematics learned is used to solve…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Design, Educational Change
