REFORMING THE 3RD-R - CHANGING THE SCHOOL MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM - ANINTRODUCTION

This special issue of the American Journal of Education, ''Reforming t he Third R,'' arose from the feeling that readers of this journal, who tend to be interested in ideas, issues, research, and practice in edu cation broadly conceived, might benefit from a more detailed look at o ne particular area, the changing mathematics curriculum. Its goal is t o provide to the education scholar community a picture of the motivati ons for, theories behind, work of, results from, and implications of t he current wave of curriculum reform in mathematics education.