The School Mathematics Project is a developer of mathematics textbooks for secondary schools, based in Southampton in the UK. Secondary school may refer to Secondary school in the United Kingdom, is the general term for the schools for children between the ages of eleven and eighteen in most areas (a few areas have schools for 13-18 year olds instead, and these are called upper schools). ... Civic Centre, Southampton Southampton is a city and major port situated on the south coast of England. ...
Now generally known as SMP, it began as a research project inspired by a 1961 conference chaired by Brian Thwaites at the University of Southampton, which itself was precipitated by calls to reform mathematics teaching in the wake of the Sputnik launch by the Soviet Union, the same circumstances which prompted the wider New Math movement. It maintains close ties with the Collaborative Group for Research in Mathematics Education at the university. University of Southampton Dolphin logo The University of Southampton is a British university situated in the city of Southampton, on the south-coast of the United Kingdom. ... Sputnik 1 The Sputnik program was a series of unmanned space missions launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s to demonstrate the viability of artificial satellites. ... New math is a term referring to a brief dramatic change in the way mathematics was taught in American grade schools during the 1960s. ...
The SMP is now a registered charity, and continues to publish textbooks in association with Cambridge University Press for GCSE and both AQA and EdexcelA-level exams. The headquarters of the Cambridge University Press, in Trumpington Street, Cambridge. ... For other meanings of GCSE, please see GCSE (disambiguation). ... AQA could refer to or stand for: The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance. ... Edexcel is a London-based organisation and one of England, Wales and Northern Irelands five main examination boards. ... An A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education usually taken during Further Education and after GCSEs. ...
The University of Chicago SchoolmathematicsProject (UCSMP) was initiated in 1983, when the Amoco Corporation awarded a grant to the mathematics and education departments for the development of programs to improve the quality of mathematics teaching and learning in the United States.
Among UCSMP's early accomplishments were (1) an examination of international mathematics curricula, (2) the writing of elementary and secondary textbooks, (3) the formation of training programs for teachers, and (4) in-house evaluation of the project's programs during both their development and their implementation in "actual use" situations (Usiskin, 2000).
In 1999, Project 2061, a long-term mathematics and science reform initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), evaluated twelve algebra textbooks in a rigorous academic analysis by teams of professional educators including classroom teachers and university researchers.
The core mathematics curriculum, designed by the University of Chicago SchoolMathematicsProject, is a demanding mathematics curriculum intended to deepen and broaden students mathematical understanding and their ability to use mathematics.
The Talent Development Middle SchoolMathematics Program was initially implemented beginning in September 1995 at a Philadelphia middle school serving significant numbers of adolescents placed at risk, as part of the design for a Talent Development Middle School whole school reform.
University of Chicago SchoolMathematicsProject materials are currently being used by over three million students nation-wide and hundreds of school districts including Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Birmingham, and the Bronx.
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