President’s Report
This special issue of the Mathematics Council Newsletter has been produced for two reasons:
• With it, you are receiving copies of “Tomorrow’s Mathematics Classroom: A Vision of Mathematics Education for Canada” (Grades 1-3, 4-6, 7-9,
10- 12).
• I was able to discuss the new high school mathematics curriculum with Hugh Sanders, acting assistant director of Mathematics and Science, Curriculum Standards Branch, Alberta Education, and the text of our discussion follows.
The documents and conversation are important because they help us to understand how Alberta’s new mathematics curriculum “fits” into thinking across Canada. The four documents were created by a group of mathematics educators from across Canada. This group met twice, in the summers of 1996 and 1997, to create these vision statements.
My talk with Hugh occurred the day Alberta Education announced that, in Alberta, the new Pure Mathematics 10 would be implemented in September 1998, but that the new Applied Mathematics 10 would be optional for September 1998.
If you don’t teach students in Grades 10-12, the conversation will help you to better understand how the mathematics program changes from a single-grade outcome structure for Kindergarten to Grade 9 to a multi-outcome structure in Grades 10-12.
Once you’ve had a chance to review and think about these documents, I hope that you have a chance to use the activities with your students or to discuss/share the activities and ideas with colleagues. The possibilities are endless!
On behalf of the entire executive, I hope that you enjoy the thought-provoking ideas presented in this issue of the newsletter.
Florence Glanfield
President’s Report
Florence Glanfield
Conversation Between Florence Glanfield, MCATA, and Hugh Sanders, Alberta Education
