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“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.”—G.K. Chesterton.

“Il ne peut y avoir une méthode de lecture parfaitement naturelle et rationnelle, par cette excellente raison que les lettres sont des signes de convention, et qu’il n’y a pas de rapport naturel entre ces signes et les idées qu’ils expriment.”— G. Compayré , Cours de Pédagogie, La lecture et l’écriture – 1895

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Books

  1. Liping Ma, Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics 1999.
  2. The schools we need and why we don’t have them by E. D. Hirsch.

Education Resources

  1. CERC -Catholic Educator’s Resource center
  2. Joseph E Barrett -Philosophy resource
  3. Cut the Knot -Math resource
  4. ISI -College guide
  5. Illinois Loop -Education resource
  6. Euclid’s Elements
  7. H. Wu -Math-ed page
  8. Student Guide to the Core Curriculum
  9. Purplemath – Algebra Resource

Miscellaneous

  1. Constructivism in Education: Sophistry for a New Age
  2. Myths About the Search for Knowledge J. Budziszewski on the dictatorship of relativism
  3. In Praise of Lectures Dr. T. W. Körner on the importance of attending lectures.
  4. Peter Kreeft

The Math Wars

  1. Honest Open Logical Debate on Mathematics Education Reform
  2. Mathematically Correct
  3. “I have never heard of it” — Gail Burrill, NCTM President
  4. Concerning Rain forest algebra and MTV geometry
  5. The Computers Delusion by Todd Oppenheimer

Educational Research

  1. Australian Government Study into the Teaching of Literacy
  2. Teach your child to read
  3. Misapplications of Cognitive Psychology to Mathematics Education
    by John R. Anderson, Lynne M. Reder, Herbert A. Simon
  4. Why Education Experts Resist Effective Practices (And What It Would Take to Make Education More Like Medicine) by Douglas Carnine
  5. Scientific Fraud in TIMSS? Searching for the Truth by W. G. Quirk
  6. Can There Be “Research in Mathematical Education”?, by Herbert Wilf

Mathematics Standards and Curricula

  1. The California Mathematics Curriculum
  2. The Truth About The NCTM Standards by W. G. Quirk
  3. Critical Review of NCTM Standards by F. B. Allen (Past President of NCTM)
  4. 2005 Math Standards An analysis of state math standards by the Fordham Foundation

Mathematics Education Bibliography

  1. Sybilla Beckmann,Solving Algebra and Other Story Problems
  2. Alexander Borosovich. Contrast between the inefficiency of California textbooks and those used in Singapore
  3. California State Board of Education, Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve, California Department of Education, 1999.
  4. “California Mathematics Curriculum”
  5. Mary P. Dolciani, Robert H. Sorgenfrey, John A. Graham, David L. Myers Introductory Analysis   Houghton Mifflin.
  6. Kunihiko Kodaira, (Editor) Mathematics 1, Japanese Grades 7-9, University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, 1992.
  7. Mathematics, Japanese Grade 9, University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, 1992.
  8. Kunihiko Kodaira, (Editor) Mathematics 1, Japanese Grade 10, American Mathematical Society, 1991.
  9. Kunihiko Kodaira, (Editor) Mathematics 2, Japanese Grade 11, American Mathematical Society, 1991.
  10. Kunihiko Kodaira, (Editor) Algebra and Geometry, Japanese Grade 11, American Mathematical Society, 1991.
  11. Kunihiko Kodaira, (Editor) Basic Analysis, Japanese Grade 11, American Mathematical Society, 1991.
  12. S. Lang, G. Murrow, Geometry – A High School Course, Springer 1997.
  13. Liping Ma, Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, Mahwah, NJ, 1999.
  14. H. Wu (Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-3840) Chapter 2: Fractions. http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~wu/
  15. Thomas Parker and Scott Baldridge, Elementary Mathematics for Teachers, Sefton-Ash Publishing, 2004.
  16. Philip Pennance, Mathematics Standards of Puerto Rico: Analysis and Recommendations.
  17. Mario L. Rodríguez Barrios, Matemática para Maestros, Editora Centenario, 2001. (ISBN 1-8817736-21-0). Distribuidora: Los Hermanos López Inc, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico).
  18. David A. Santos Precalculus I.
  19. David A. Santos, Precalculus II.
  20. Karl Smith, The Nature of Mathematics, Brooks Cole, 2001.
  21. Ian Stewart and David Tall, Foundations of Mathematics, Oxford University Press.
  22. Silviu Teleman On the Instruction of Calculus
  23. H. Wu (Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-3840) Chapter 2: Fractions. http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~wu/.
  24. H. Wu (Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-3840) Chapter 1: Whole Numbers. http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~wu/.
  25. Practice Problems Mathematics Grades 1-8