Title: School Mathematics Through the Years
Speaker: Richard A Askey, University of Wisconsin-Madison

School mathematics should be planned so that material being taught helps make later material easier to learn rather than harder. A balanced program should contain interesting multistep problems, the technical skills needed to solve these problems without each individual step taking so long that the student has trouble focusing on the whole problem, and then the larger context in which these ideas occur needs to be studied. Both good and bad examples will be given.