The Big Event

Traub, Hermann, Books Education School Literature, 10/14/2014 via Pixabay Public Domain Distribution License

The idea of revising the current math curriculum has been around for nearly half a century from influences of the Cold War. The competitive nature between the two powerhouses of the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union, created a race in nearly aspect of modern society. Education was such a category of competition, and the United States raced to create the most effective way of teaching students the attended nationwide public schools. This started a slight interest in reforming the standard math common core curriculum, which was regarded as effective, but not perfect at the time. All this aside, the most pivotal moment that caused action was the publication of the book Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for the School of Mathematics. This 1989 fire starter was written by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and was created in order to report the recent statistics that showed dropping math grades across the entire nation and unusual patterns that have been made in order to fix this phenomenon pre-1989. The book was most likely just a way to inform the public of the faults in the education system, but, instead of informing the people, it created an outcry for change. From this. two sides were formed;advocates for change and conservative perspectives that opposed change. To this day, these two sides still debate whether or not the math common core curriculum should be changed in order to change the statistics shown in Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for the School of Mathematics.