Powerful Stories: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Secondary Mathematics Curriculum Landscape

Abstract

Our goals are first to capture a few significant historical moments in the changing face of secondary school mathematics, and secondly to use these to help us decide how we need to move into the future. We decided to speak in a voice that was as personal as possible and that also supported our current research interests, and that of course has conditioned our historical record. Along with that we decided that, rather than write a single piece, we would each write our own thoughts. In particular, Peter would write the central paper, and then Divya, Kariane and Stefanie would each write a reflective response in the currere style (Pinar, W. F., The method of ``currere''. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Washington, DC, 1975). And of course we would trade ideas at every stage.