Organizing a Curriculum around Mathematical Habits of Mind.

The article focuses on the essential development of mathematical mind habits among middle grades regarding the mathematical transition from arithmetic to algebra. It features the use of habits-of-mind approach in high school curricula organization. It states that the approach offers comprehensible knowledge on mathematics and provides a vehicle used for decreasing mathematical techniques and methods used in high school which will only leaves a set of general purpose tools for the subject. It also mentions that the key for mathematical learning of students in the U.S. is building coherence in mathematical ideas development.