What is Going on in Your School?: Special preparation for general mathematics teachers

Abstract

The widespread recognition of two “tracks” in secondary school mathematics education leads to the issue implied in the title. The matter is particularly noteworthy because in the near future the schools of our country will be offering more classes of “general” (“basic,” in Pennsylvania and California; “functional,” in Florida) mathematics than of “traditional” (“specialized,” in Pennsylvania; “traditional,” in Florida; “college preparatory,” in California) mathematics.