In a recent issue of the Journal for Mathematics Education Leadership comparing many state standards to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M), Reys and Thomas (2011) noted the following “[The] specific statement of the culminating standard for each operation in CCSS-M includes the expectation of use of ‘the standard algorithm.’ … However, a definition for ‘the standard algorithm’ is not offered. If the authors of CCSS-M had a particular standard algorithm in mind, it was not made explicit nor is an argument offered for why a particular (standard) algorithm is expected.” (p.26)

The Influence of Tracking on Students’ Math Identity
As students who have been given the opportunity to see the “secret world” of teachers, attending Leadership Coaching Lab (LCL) meetings has
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