Abstract
Although many have assailed the failure of the New Math Movement of the 1950s and 60s and extolled the virtues of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards, little has been written from the perspectives of those most instrumental within each movement. It is the perspective of those who took part in each reform effort into which this paper investigated. Interviewees ably delineated the philosophical perspectives of their respective movements, reasons for its success or failure or both, and their prognosis for the future of mathematics education. The telephone interviews of some of the seminal people involved within the two movements were transcribed, coded, analyzed, and are here reported. Many of the results could not have been imagined by anyone outside of the inner circles within these reform efforts. This article offers many surprising opinions that have not been available anywhere else and which offer a stern warning to the NCTM.
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