Talking It Through: A Cross-National Conversation

About Secondary Mathematics Curricula

Board on International Comparative Studies in Education

and

Mathematical Sciences Education Board

The National Academies

Center for Education

National Academy of Sciences

2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

(entrance 2100 C Street, across from the U.S. Department of State)

March 31 and April 1, 2003, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

How do several industrialized countries use mathematics curricula both to prepare all secondary students to be mathematically proficient citizens and to prepare some students for mathematically intensive college programs and career fields? This two-day workshop will bring together mathematicians, mathematics educators, and representatives from high-tech industries from several industrialized countries where secondary mathematics curriculum has been recently revisited in light of a rapidly changing, high technology-oriented labor market and increasing enrollments in higher education. We expect this cross-national conversation to make a valuable contribution to research and policy for enhancing development of more effective mathematics curricula, teaching, learning, and application.

Each speaker will discuss historical and contemporary experiences in his/her country as well as evidence for the effectiveness of various approaches to date. Some of the speakers on the agenda are:

Mogens Niss, Roskilde University, Denmark

John Dossey, Illinois State University, U.S.A.

Abraham Arcavi, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Christine Keitel-Kreidt, Free University of Berlin, Germany

Graham Ruddock, National Foundation for Educational Research, United Kingdom

Peng Yee Lee, National Institute of Education, Singapore

Bernard White, Exxon Mobil Corporation, U.S.A.

Adam Gamoran, University of Wisconsin at Madison, U.S.A.

Gelsa Knijnik, Universidade do Vale do rio dos Sinos, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Uri Treisman, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.

Berinderjeet Kauer, National Institute of Education, Singapore

Arthur Jaffe, Harvard University, U.S.A.

The agenda and some background papers will be posted on two web sites by mid-March (http://www.nationalacademies.org/bicse) and (http://www.nationalacademies.org/mseb).

*** To RSVP, contact Jane Phillips (jphillip@nas.edu) (1-202-334-3010).

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