First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

I. Applications Acturial mathematics; applications for the classroom; overview; economics; environmental mathematics; health; modeling; numerical analysis; operations research; population growth; sports. II. Assessment Assessment of student achievement; overview; evaluation of instruction; overview; National Assessment of Educational Progress. III. Content and Instructional Procedures Abstract algebra; addition; algebraic numbers; algorithms; arithmetic; axioms; calculus; overview; continuity; data representation; decimal system; inequalities; inverse functions; mathematics; foundations; mathematics, nature of; number sense and numeration; number theory, overview; probability in elementary school mathematics; statistics, overview. IV. Curriculum Addition; curriculum trends; secondary level; discrete mathematics; integration of elementary school mathematics instruction with other subjects; standards, curriculum. V. Enrichment Art; enrichment, overview; family math; games; projects for students; recreations, overview. VI. Governmental Role Federal governement, role of; mathematics education; statistical indicators of; state government, role. VII. History of Mathematics History of mathematics, overview; Abel, Archimedes, Bernouilli Family, etc; African customs applied to the mathematics classroom, Babylonian mathematics, Islam, etc. VIII. Issues Assessment of student achievement, issues; basic skills; developmental (remedial) mathematics; ethnomathematics; evaluation of instruction, issues; gifted, special programs for; learning disabilities, overview; mathematics, philosophical issues; mathematics anxiety; minorities, educational problems