Handbook For Conducting A Secondary Program Review PDF Download

This publication is intended to serve as a resource for teachers who are responsible for selecting textbooks for general mathematics courses in high school. Contained are 18 factual textbook reviews. (The reviews do not contain assessments about the quality of the books). Each review includes four parts. Part 1 contains information furnished by the publisher to describe the textbook and its intended audience. Part 2 provides two kinds of information about each textbook in chart format: the first is the emphasis given to each of 25 mathematical topics; the second is the level of the textbook's content compared with levels established as goals or targets in the State of California's "Model Curriculum Standards: Mathematics" and the "Mathematics Framework." Part 3 indicates the extent to which each textbook stresses six "framework focuses" described in the "Mathematics Framework." Part 4 indicates materials that are furnished by the publisher when student textbooks are purchased. Textbooks are included from: (1) Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; (2) Allyn and Bacon, Inc.; (3) Amsco School Publications, Inc.; (4) EDITS; (5) Glencoe Publishing Company; (6) Hammond, Inc.; (7) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; (8) D. C. Heath and Company; (9) Holt, Rinehart and Winston; (10) Houghton Mifflin Company; (11) Laidlaw Educational Publishers; (12) Media Materials, Inc.; (13) Scott, Foresman and Company; (14) University of Chicago Mathematics Project; and (15) West Educational Publishing. (RH)