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"Developing a 21st Century Global Library for Mathematics Research discusses how information about what the mathematical literature contains can be formalized and made easier to express, encode, and explore. Many of the tools necessary to make this information system a reality will require much more than indexing and will instead depend on community input paired with machine learning, where mathematicians' expertise can fill the gaps of automatization. This report proposes the establishment of an organization; the development of a set of platforms, tools, and services; the deployment of an ongoing applied research program to complement the development work; and the mobilization and coordination of the mathematical community to take the first steps toward these capabilities. The report recommends building on the extensive work done by many dedicated individuals under the rubric of the World Digital Mathematical Library, as well as many other community initiatives. Developing a 21st Century Global Library for Mathematics envisions a combination of machine learning methods and community-based editorial effort that makes a significantly greater portion of the information and knowledge in the global mathematical corpus available to researchers as linked open data through a central organizational entity-referred to in the report as the Digital Mathematics Library. This report describes how such a library might operate - discussing development and research needs, role in facilitating discover and interaction, and establishing partnerships with publishers."

An emeritus professor from Queens College questions algebra's role in quantitative literacy and workforce preparation

Publicado en Eduteka: Septiembre 6 de 2003 por Juan Carlos López Las herramientas tecnológicas ofrecen al maestro de Matemáticas la oportunidad de crear ambientes de aprendizaje enriquecidos para que los estudiantes la perciban como ciencia experimental y proceso exploratorio significativo dentro de su formación. La educación básica y media debe tener como propósito que los estudiantes alcancen las 'competencias matemáticas' necesarias para comprender, utilizar, aplicar y comunicar conceptos y procedimientos matemáticos. Que puedan a través de la exploración, abstracción, clasificación, medición y estimación, llegar a resultados que les permitan comunicarse y hacer interpretaciones y representaciones; es decir, descubrir que las matemáticas si están relacionadas con la vida y con las situaciones que los rodean, más allá de las paredes de la escuela