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ARCHANA V.T 13369 001 MATHEMATICS

K T C T C OL L EG E OF TEAC HER

EDUC ATION

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JEENA TEACHER

JEENA M.S

ASSISTANT PROFESSER IN MATHEMATICS

CURRICULUM STUDY GROUPS SMP, SMSG, NMP, SCERT, NCERT

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CONTENT SMSG (School Mathematics Study Group)

SMSG is a massive endeavor started in USA in 1958 with a view to

improve the existing system of mathematics curriculum.

In addition to its improvement and complication of study material,

SMSG prepared text books separately U.S.A has published a set of 16

book prepared by SMSG. Eight of these books are tent books for use

in secondary school and eight companion volumes are teacher

guides four book deal with arithmetic, two with algebra and two

geometry.

SMP (Scottish Mathematics Project) Scottish Mathematics project was started in 1961 for

improvement in Mathematics curriculum was reconstructed in

Scotland with the intension of teaching Mathematics heuristically in

schools. They prepared with this intention 5 tent books for the pupils

studying for general certificate Education examination at O level.

Later in 1967 they prepared a series of tent books from A to H levels

for the students studying for CSE examination. These tent books

were prepared by considering the problems needs of experiments

and problems solving activities. They also prepared hand books for

the teachers for effective teaching.

NCERT (National Council for Educational Research and Training)

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At the primary stage(from 1 to 5 std) the fundamental operations

and their elementary properties are introduced – concept of

lengh,time,weights etc should be developed. The child should gain

familiarity with geometrical forms and figures. Simple application of

fundamental operations and arithemetical process to everyday

problem should find an important place at these stage.

At the middle stage or upper primary stage the number system will

be extended to real numbers and also its operations. Students

should made familiar with the language of algebra and linear

equations and inequlities in one a variable is introduced

Elimentary concepts of statistics should be developed

properties of triangle, quadrilateral, circle, arc and volume of solids

and cocepts of regular figures should be developed at this stage.

In class 9 and 10(secondary stage) the real life problem

should handled by the child. The knowledge and algebraic phases

should by systematized. The idea of proofs should be developed the

elimentry theory of circles, parallelogram,tringle be taken.

Introduduction of trigonometry ratios at uses of descriptions.

Statistics made at this stage. Easy of mathematics and natural

mathematical thinking should be particular at the entire course.

Also NCERT organization teachers workshop, refresher

course and in service programmes and teachers handbook, work

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book and educational journals etc. For improving the quality of

teaching.

NMP (Nuffield of Mathematics Project)

Two major curriculum development projects in primary and

secondary Mathematics, Nuffield primary Mathematics (1966-71)

and SMP respectively were both founded by charitable bodies. Each

had its associated programme of teacher development to support

curricular and pedagogical reforms, The first LEA teachers centers for

example were an outcome of the Nuffield project(Watson, 1967)

meeting a need for locally based venues to house resources and to

host meeting of teachers the project toole principled decision to

develop printed resources for teachers the Nuffield Guides and not

to produce textbooks for children.

SCERT (State Council For Educational Research and Training)

SCERT to give a new thrust and direction to school education. SCERT

, Kerala was established in 1994. It is an autonomous body entrusted

with planning, implementation and evaluation of all academic

programs from pre-school to higher secondary levels. SCERT

concerned with academic aspects of school education including

formation of textbooks , teacher’s handbooks and teacher training.

Functions are to develop and produce teaching learning materials, to

develop system approaches for qualitative education, to develop the

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strategies to achieve the goals of education for quality , to develop

the curriculum and instructional materials.

SCERT , at the state level will carry out all those activities as counter

part of NCERT for the qualitative improvement of education in the

state . These includes workshop ,seminars ,training ,clustermeeting

,refresher courses ,comprehencive teacher empowerment

programmes ,researches ,research grants ,awards and scholarships

for teachers.

REFERENCES

Mathematics Education-

Dr. K. Soman & Dr. K. Sivarajan

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Teaching Of Mathematics- Dr. Anice James

Wikipedia

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Verified by

Jeena M S

Assistant Professor in Mathematics

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