. "NCTM and the National Standards for Mathematics Education."
Improving Student Learning in Mathematics and Science: The Role
of National Standards in State Policy. Washington, DC: The
National Academies Press, 1997. The following HTML text is
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Student Learning in Mathematics and Science: The Role of
National Standards in State Policy For the NCTM Standards
documents to have influence in the field, it was clear that
there was a need to have illustrations and examples of how the
ideas of the documents could be brought to life in classrooms.
The Addenda Project was initiated in 1988 to "provide teaching
lessons to exemplify the Standards" (McLeod et al., 1996).
NCTM's efforts to provide assistance to the field in the area of
interpretation also occurred through its journals and
conventions. A journal for middle school teachers, Mat