Mathematics education, by the Yearbook Committee and associated contributors

will be forced to abandon the self-contained classroom above the second or third
grade as far as mathematics is concerned. Now let us turn to a ... Probably the
most spectacular improvement in the K-XII mathematics curriculum in recent
years has been at the seventh- and eighth-grade levels. ... (At the ninth-grade
level, one is more likely to find teachers with something like Level II training or
even Level III training, especially if the school system involves a IX-XH high
school.) School ...