Soundoff!: In Defense of Mathematics Reform and the NCTM's Standards

Abstract

In his 1998 “The State of Mathematics Education” address, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley called for a “cease-fire in the current ‘math wars.’” Deploring “shortsighted, politicized, and harmful bickering over the teaching and learning of mathematics,” he worried that continuing “down this road of infighting, we will only negate the gains we have already made—and the real losers will be the students of America.”