The new Mathematics General syllabus describes two pathways that start in Year 11. Even though both pathways share a common Preliminary course, students taking each pathway have specific learning needs, so we have published two levels of text for both Years 11 and 12. First published in 2000 and revised in 2009, New Century Maths 11 (Pathway 2) has been revised again for the new Mathematics General course commencing in NSW in 2013. This book is produced especially for students who have completed some or all of Stage 5.2(especially in algebra and trigonometry), and are heading towards the Mathematics General 2 HSC course in Year 12, ATAR and university study. This is the more traditional and academic pathway of the updated course. The printed book is supported by an interactive NelsonNetBook version of the text. Students and teachers will have access to a range of useful resources on the password-protected NelsonNet website. To download a sample chapter, a Driving safelya , click the Download Sample Material button. The corresponding Year 12 text, New Century Maths 12 General Mathematics 2 HSC Course, will be available in mid 2013. Please visit www.newcenturymaths.com.au for updates or contact your local sales representative for more details.

New Century Maths raises the benchmark for mathematics in New South Wales. Each text contains work from a number of stages to accommodate the mixed-ability classroom and to cater for studentsa individual differences. Texts structured in this way encourage flexible teaching and learning plans and truly reflect the intention of an outcomes-based syllabus. To fully cater for a wide range of abilities and needs, each text at years 9 and 10 is published in two versions, stages 5.1/5.2 and stages 5.2/5.3, both providing different pathways of learning. This structure enables students to follow the pathway into the stage 6 mathematics course that best suits their abilities and needs.

The new Mathematics General syllabus describes two pathways that start in Year 11. Even though both pathways share a common Preliminary course, students taking each pathway have specific learning needs, so we have published two levels of text for both Years 11 and 12. First published in 2001 and revised in 2010, this book has been revised again for the new Mathematics General course beginning in NSW in 2013. This book caters for the Mathematics General 2 HSC course in Year 12, an updated version of the General Mathematics course. It is designed for students heading towards an HSC exam, an ATAR and university studies. This book includes access to the NelsonNet portal of resources and an interactive NelsonNetBook. Select Bonus Resource Downloads to access the PowerPoint presentation a Exploring the new Mathematics General Syllabusa and a summary of course changes written by series editor Robert Yen.

The new Mathematics General syllabus describes two pathways that start in Year 11. Even though both pathways share a common Preliminary course, students taking each pathway have specific learning needs, so we have published two levels of text for both Years 11 and 12. This addition to the successful New Century Maths series has been written for the new Mathematics General course commencing in 2013 in NSW. This book caters for the Mathematics General 1 HSC course in Year 12, for students heading towards the workforce or further training after school. This content-endorsed course is not HSC -examinable, providing mathematical skills for life. This book includes access to the NelsonNet teacher website of resources and downloadable chapter PDFs for schools that use New Century Maths 12 as a core resource. Select Bonus Resource Downloads to access the PowerPoint presentation a Exploring the new Mathematics General Syllabusa and a summary of course changes written by series editor Robert Yen.

This book intends to provide a comprehensive introduction to the status of development of Chinese mathematics education in the 21st century. To this end, the book summarizes and presents the research and practices of Chinese mathematics education in the following aspects: (1) characteristics of Chinese school mathematics curriculum and textbooks, (2) Chinese ways and strategies of teaching mathematics and the characteristics of mathematics classroom instruction in China, (3) Chinese instructional practices in developing (both gifted and underachieving) students’ mathematical capabilities, (4) how professional development of mathematics teachers is promoted in China, including mathematics teachers’ pre-service and in-service education, and how Chinese mathematics teachers design and implement teaching and research activities, and (5) how mathematics education is assessed and evaluated, including how to evaluate teachers’ teaching and students’ achievements. Relevant research in Chinese mathematics education involving methods of surveys, interviews, text analysis, etc., are reviewed and analyzed. Results of a number of video studies of Chinese mathematics classroom teaching and learning are also integrated into this book.

The international New Math developments between about 1950 through 1980, are regarded by many mathematics educators and education historians as the most historically important development in curricula of the twentieth century. It attracted the attention of local and international politicians, of teachers, and of parents, and influenced the teaching and learning of mathematics at all levels—kindergarten to college graduate—in many nations. After garnering much initial support it began to attract criticism. But, as Bill Jacob and the late Jerry Becker show in Chapter 17, some of the effects became entrenched. This volume, edited by Professor Dirk De Bock, of Belgium, provides an outstanding overview of the New Math/modern mathematics movement. Chapter authors provide exceptionally high-quality analyses of the rise of the movement, and of subsequent developments, within a range of nations. The first few chapters show how the initial leadership came from mathematicians in European nations and in the United States of America. The background leaders in Europe were Caleb Gattegno and members of a mysterious group of mainly French pure mathematicians, who since the 1930s had published under the name of (a fictitious) “Nicolas Bourbaki.” In the United States, there emerged, during the 1950s various attempts to improve U.S. mathematics curricula and teaching, especially in secondary schools and colleges. This side of the story climaxed in 1957 when the Soviet Union succeeded in launching “Sputnik,” the first satellite. Undoubtedly, this is a landmark publication in education. The foreword was written by Professor Bob Moon, one of a few other scholars to have written on the New Math from an international perspective. The final “epilogue” chapter, by Professor Geert Vanpaemel, a historian, draws together the overall thrust of the volume, and makes links with the general history of curriculum development, especially in science education, including recent globalization trends.