Mental Computational Skills of Students in a Reform Mathematics Curriculum.
William M. Carroll · 1996
This paper presents resealch conducted as part of the f'ield test of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project's (UCSMP) curriculum, Fifth Grade Everyday Mathematics. The UCSMP curriculum is one of the current reform programs funded by the National Science Foundation to implement the Standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. In this study a timed mental computation test was given to (n=78) fifth-grade students who had been in the UCSMP curriculum since kindergarten. The UCSMP students outperformed the baseline group on all but one of the 25 items. During interviews UCSMP students rarely used a mental version of a paper-and-pencil method and tended to employ some of the methods used by good mental calculators. (MKR) * *********************-************* Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. _************************************************ * 11.11t,11:,,SION 10 NEPRODorf. Aril rd,..sq_MIHATE IHI,, MATE:1.11AL HA5 E'EEN 'P.A TI EN B U\i a U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION e ReSOAf!, arc -^,', ,ra TWNAr Pf SOuRcr rtg CIPKIA ,E Rif r 45 R, n.nr, nas cwt., et.,,,a1. a Ironihp p r5,^ r ;On / , ,rginalply .1 Mro, changes ha, rwen 'race 'OW0(1, Non gwilay 0,m5 oC,,ns sIaI..c1 .1. GM ra, hep pssa fp, Pp,ele, 4 (NA , Lx, Mental Computational Skills of Students in a Reform Mathematics Curriculum