Opportunity to Learn Mathematics in Eighth-Grade Classrooms in the United States: Some Findings from the Second International Mathematics Study

Kenneth J. Travers

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Opportunity to Learn Mathematics in Eighth-Grade Classrooms in the United States: Some Findings from the Second International Mathematics Study

Kenneth J. Travers

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The low mathematics achievement of language minority (LM) students in United States schools has been well documented. The 1985 Condition of Education report of the National Center for Education Statistics notes that the basic skills and problem-solving competencies of blacks and Hispanics are much lower than those of white children (p. 59). Not surprisingly, this problem is reflected at the high school level in other ways, such as disproportionately high dropout rates for LM students. In 1980, the Condition of Education identified Hispanics as having the highest dropout rate for high school sophomores of all racial! ethnic groups (the overall rate was 14.4%; the rate for Hispanics was “19.1% and for white, nonHispanics 13.0%) (p. 210).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Linguistic and Cultural Influences on Learning Mathematics
Editors	Rodney R Cocking, Jose P Mestre
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	187-200
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781136562563
ISBN (Print)	0898598761, 9780898598766
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203056820-16
State	Published - Jan 1 1988

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Name	The Psychology of Education and Instruction

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Travers, K. J. (1988). Opportunity to Learn Mathematics in Eighth-Grade Classrooms in the United States: Some Findings from the Second International Mathematics Study. In R. R. Cocking, & J. P. Mestre (Eds.), Linguistic and Cultural Influences on Learning Mathematics (pp. 187-200). (The Psychology of Education and Instruction). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203056820-16

Opportunity to Learn Mathematics in Eighth-Grade Classrooms in the United States: Some Findings from the Second International Mathematics Study. / Travers, Kenneth J.
Linguistic and Cultural Influences on Learning Mathematics. ed. / Rodney R Cocking; Jose P Mestre. Taylor and Francis, 1988. p. 187-200 (The Psychology of Education and Instruction).

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Travers, KJ 1988, Opportunity to Learn Mathematics in Eighth-Grade Classrooms in the United States: Some Findings from the Second International Mathematics Study. in RR Cocking & JP Mestre (eds), Linguistic and Cultural Influences on Learning Mathematics. The Psychology of Education and Instruction, Taylor and Francis, pp. 187-200. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203056820-16

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