Implementing ‘modern math’ in Iceland – : Informing parents and the public

Titill:	Implementing ‘modern math’ in Iceland – : Informing parents and the public
Höfundur:	Bjarnadóttir, Kristín Pytlak, Marta Rowland, Tim Swoboda, Ewa 4 höfundar Sýna færri höfunda
Útgáfa:	2011
Tungumál:	Enska
Umfang:	10
Svið:	Education
Birtist í:	Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, 9th–13th February, 2011 Rzeszów, Poland; ()
Efnisorð:	Mathematics (all)
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/4892
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Tilvitnun: Bjarnadóttir , K 2011 , Implementing ‘modern math’ in Iceland – : Informing parents and the public . in M Pytlak , T Rowland & E Swoboda (eds) , Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, 9th–13th February, 2011 Rzeszów, Poland . Publishing Office of the University of Rzeszow , Rzeszów , pp. 1670–1679 .
Útdráttur: ‘Modern math’ was implemented in Icelandic schools at all levels in the 1960s. It was introduced to parents at meetings and by media articles, interviews and a television programme in 17 episodes. It is argued that the information was presented by unrealistic convictions of the quality of the ‘modern math’ programme, that the timing of the presentations was not optimal, and that more information was needed when the programme had reached the majority of pupils at the primary level.