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Recognizing and
Recording
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Mathematics Education
Project: Insights, Issues, and Implications Monograph Number 8
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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The Recognizing
and
Recording Reform in Mathematics Education
Project: Insights, Issues, and
Implications
edited by JoanFerrini-Mundy and Thomas Schram
National Council of Teachersof Mathematics
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Table of Contents Authors .......................................................
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Introduction The Recognizing and RecordingReform in MathematicsEducationProject ................................. Joan Ferrini-Mundy Goals and ConceptualFramework Chapter1 Joan Ferrini-Mundyand Karen Graham ................. Cross-DisciplinaryTeamingin Researchon Mathematics Chapter2 Reform:Evolutionof Process and Perspective ThomasSchramand GeoffreyMills .................... InstitutionalizingMathematicsEducationReform: Chapter3 Vision, Leadership,and the Standards Beverly Ferrucci ................................... WalkingTogetheron SeparatePaths: Chapter4