ASSIGNMENT

Submitted by

ARCHANA V.T 13 369 001 MATHEMATICS

Submitted to

JEENA TEACHER JEENA M.S

ASSISTANT PROFESSER IN MATHEMATICS

CONTENTSMSG (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)

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. A+ 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 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 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

• Teaching Of Mathematics-Dr. Anice James

• Wikipedia

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