The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics maintains that the middle school curriculum should include:

Question

a. the application of mathematics to real-world problems, especially those to which middle school students can relate.
b. considerable amounts of paper and pencil computation, so young adolescents will have sufficient drill and practice.
c. basically a review of elementary school mathematics which will provide a solid foundation for secondary school mathematics.
d. a single subject approach because mathematics is often difficult to teach in an integrated curriculum.

Answer 1

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