Online assignment

1. ONLINE
ONLINE ASSIGNMENT
TOPIC: SMSG(School Mathematics
Study Group) & SMP (Scottish
Mathematics Project)
SUBMITTED BY ATHIRA.R SUBMITTED TO JAYASREE TEACHER
Curriculum Study Groups are a powerful way to transform teaching and learning
through online collaboration among teachers of the same subject and grade, under the
guidance of master teachers.
Our Goals
 Magnifying the impact of our best teachers, while providing them with
potentially the most powerful professional development of their careers
 Reducing needless reinvention of the wheel, by enabling participants to build
on the experience and resources of master teachers
 Providing tangible support for lesson planning, instruction, and assessment that
goes beyond what is offered in published curriculum
 Making high-quality, curriculum-based professional development available to
any teacher, anywhere
 Assisting all teachers in addressing the new challenge of helping students meet
the Common Core State Standards and other rigorous learning standards in
specific content areas.
Program Components

2.  Live video curriculum session(s) totaling 1 hour per week, outlining plans for
the week
 Access to Master Teacher’s entire range of curricular resources, including unit
and lesson plans, handouts, assessments, rubrics, organizational tips, materials
lists, activity instructions, and more
 Tips for making modifications to published curriculum materials to meet
students’ needs
 Online collaboration forum for sharing ideas with other participants
 Note: If your CSG focuses on a particular published curriculum, you must
purchase your own copy of that curriculum. Master Teachers will distribute
only materials they have created themselves, not copyrighted materials from
publishers.
SMSG(School Management Study
Group)
School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) is a massive
Endeavour started in USA , in 1958 with a view to improve the
existing system of mathematics curriculum. In addition to its
improvement and compilation of study materials, SMSG
prepared textbooks separately for both teachers and
students. Yale University USA has published a set of 16
books prepared by SMSG. Eight of these books are
textbooks for the use in secondary school and eight
companion volumes are teacher guides. Four books deal
with arithmetic, two with algebra and two geometry. The
preface explains:
“One of the pre-requisites for improvement of the
teaching of mathematics in science and technology and in
other areas of knowledge; and at the same time which
reflects recent advances in mathematics itself. One of the
first projects undertaken by SMSG was to enlist a group of

3. outstanding mathematicians and mathematics teachers to
prepare a series of textbooks which would illustrate such an
improved curriculum.”
Key ideas underlying these books are structure of
arithmetic from algebraic viewpoint , real number system as
a progressive development; metric and non metric relations
in geometry , experience with and appreciation of abstract6
concepts, the role of definition, development of precise
vocabulary and thought, experimentation and proof.
In contrast to traditional beginning of textbooks in
arithmetic the opening chapter of SMSG volume of arithmetic
is –“Mathematics as a Method of Reasoning”. Algebra is
introduced through ‘sets’. Similarly the stress in geometry is
on explanation of concepts.
SMSG provided training programs to teachers for
handling novel methods and techniques of teaching
mathematics. The curriculum and textbooks prepared by
SMSG have got worldwide recognition.
Working on this modern concept of mathematics
curriculum as practiced in the USA the National Council of
Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has prepared
some model textbooks in mathematics for the use in
secondary schools in India. The textbooks in Algebra
prepared by the NCERT deals with the following topics-
elementary number theory, fractions, rational numbers, linear
equations, radicals, complex numbers, integral exponents,
polynomials, partial fractions, sequences and series,
permutations and combinations, binomial theorem and
logarithms.
The schools in Delhi State were among the first to adopt
this modern mathematics in their school curriculum. By 1970
Kerala also revised the mathematics curriculum in tune with
modern Mathematics sponsored by the SMSG. A more
balanced curriculum is now being adopted in the national
(10+2) pattern

4. .REFERENCE
TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS-ANICE JAMES