Transition Mathematics Project

Curriculum Restructuring:
What do students need to understand deeply about math?

• Uri Treisman's Joyful Conspiracy, a video by Carnegie Views, Fall 2009 - Uri Treisman shares ideas on developmental math reform and how a ‘joyful conspiracy’ can lead to key improvemements
• Architecture of intensification (Treisman); see Dana Center Practices Worthy of Attention article
• Phil Daro: “Mathematics for Whom? The Top of High School Meets the Bottom of College”
• Sol Garfunkel: “Math to Work”
• Basic Skills as a Foundation for Student Success
• National Center for Academic Transformation course redesign projects
• Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges (lots of good  resources; 2 key articles: “Project Summary and Recommendations” and “Change and Sustain/Ability”)
• Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years (MAA project):
• Mathematics and the Mathematical Sciences in 2010: What Should Students Know? (MAA)
• Achieving the Dream “Setting Up Success”
• Alan Schoenfeld: “What Do We Know About the Mathematics Curriculum?”
• CSU Transforming Course Design in Developmental Mathematics:  See additional info
• Common Core Standards
• SPECC Faculty Inquiry in Action: Guidelines for Working Together to improve Student Learning, from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2008
• National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT): Six Models for Course Redesign, 2008
• NCAT Math Course Redesign Examples, 2009
• What Research Tells Us About Learning Mathematics, from How Students Learn Mathematics in the Classroom, a report of the National Research Council of the National Academies, 2005
• Agile Mind and Academic Youth Development, Charles A Dana Center, University of Texas
    (To view this recording you will need to do an easy software download from this site: Elluminate.com/support)