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In the nineteen-fifties and ’sixties a new phenomenon appeared in Mathematics education — the Mathematics curriculum project. This was an experimental ‘vehicle’ for deliberately changing the curriculum, and the phenomenon is a well-known aspect of general educational activity nowadays. The curriculum project injected a very deliberate, interventionist, and indeed revolutionary idea into the education process. Educational change was no longer something that just seemed to happen, or which was subject to unknown external forces. It could be imagined, planned, experimented with and, if successful on a ‘pilot scale’, deliberately put into operation on a large scale.
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IPI stands for Individually Prescribed Instruction Project, and see Lindvall and Cox for a good analysis. IMU stands for (in English) Individualised Mathematics Instruction Project, see Larsson (1973).
SMSG stands for School Mathematics Study Group, see Wooton (1965). SMP stands for School Mathematics Project, see Howson (1987).
CSMP stands for Comprehensive School Mathematics Project, see Herbert (1974).
For information on the Madison Project, see Davis (1965). For information on the Nuffield project see Hewton (1975).
USMES stands for Unified Science and Mathematics for Elementary Schools, Shann et al. (1975). MMP (CP) stands for Mathematics for the Majority Project (Continuation Project), see Kaner (1973).
See, for example, Hoyles and Sutherland (1985).
See, for example, the unit on ‘Time’ in the Science 5/13 Series (MacDonald Educational, 1969)
See, for example, J. Dewey (1916) which is where he puts forward his philosophy of education.
See Swetz (1982) and Burgess (1986) for some examples of how to introduce students and pupils to historical ideas through projects. Also Osen (1974) gives more biographical information in Women in Mathematics, as does Fox et al. (1980).
A recent and promising approach to this area is described by Hudson (1987) using a database of statistics on 127 different countries.
See, for example, Some Lessons in Mathematics with a Microcomputer (SLIMWAM 1 and 2) published by the Association of Teachers of Mathematics, Queen Street, Derby, U.K.
Some examples of pupils’ investigations are given in Banwell, Saunders and Tahta (1986).
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Bishop, A.J. (1991). Mathematical Enculturation — The Curriculum. In: Mathematical Enculturation. Mathematics Education Library, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2657-8_5
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