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Now Per & Maria have organised a Matematikverkst臈er web site to support Swedish teachers and orders for their services have been flowing in. You might not speak Swedish, but take a look at their site anyway using the Link List below. It is thrilling to know that the effort so many teachers have put into the concept of all students learning to work like a mathematician is being shared so widely.

• to educate students to be active thinking citizens, interpreting the world mathematically
• to appreciate the elegance and power of mathematical thinking
• to experience mathematics as enjoyable
• to encounter teachers who communicate this enjoyment

Jodi & Maria's contributions this month suggest they are well down the track in achieving these aims, even before the document is legislated. We know they aren't the only ones.

But perhaps the document itself does not fulfil its aims beyond page 5. If you haven't previously done so, you might like to read criticism of it from The Age, March 4th, by two mathematicians, Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, under the byline:

• New maths curriculum a feeble tool calculated to bore

If you have time, there are also 29 comments that readers have added to the article. See Link List below.

However the detail of the final document unravels, Mathematics Centre offers a great deal to teachers who want to build on its framework to develop a mathematics curriculum that fascinates, captivates and absorbs kids.

...Mathematics Centre: is continuing. There has been a lot done this month, for example this page has changed, but the only thing you are likely to notice is how well it is all tying together. We were going to work on the Resources page this month, but shifted to Assessment as explained above, so Resources will get a makeover before the next eNews.