What makes it so exciting is that it really makes mathematics come alive," says Steve Leinwand, mathematics consultant with the Connecticut State Department of Education. "What makes it so exciting is that it provides real-world situations and real-world contextto make sense of big mathematical ideas."
So what is it that Leinwand is so excited about? It is Math Connections, a new math curriculum, a math curriculum that's exciting, Leinwand adds, because it's an attempt to implement the new NCTM [National Council of Teachers of Mathematics] standards.
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