Chapter 8
The Case of Five Curriculum Projects
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Abstract
This chapter relates to some of the numerous attempts to implement the Mathematics Group’s original mission to cater to the cognitive and affective needs of the Israeli student population by developing a wide variety of mathematical learning materials. To describe some of the issues considered throughout a period of more than 50 years of curriculum development, we organized this chapter around five areas of concern in the design of mathematical learning materials: changing the nature of mathematical content, promoting context-based activities, promoting multiple representations, supporting students’ learning processes and reflecting intended teaching and learning processes. Different projects related to these design concerns in different ways, according to their goals and rationale, and provided correspondingly varied answers. In this paper, each area of concern is discussed in the context of one curriculum project that considered this particular area to be one of its main goals. The discussion provides some details about the project’s background, a rationale for the selected area of concern, and illustrative examples of project tasks.