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After the war we started to focus on education and educating people in maths

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In the 50’s math advances were as significant as technology advances

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We increased awareness of the need for technological competence

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During this time we learned that children are more capable of learning advanced math than we originally thought

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We started reform education plans to start teaching students more advanced math in school such as alegebra

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University found its voice in the CEEB Commission on Mathematics

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October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. This encouraged American mathematics to become more rigorous for students starting at a younger age.

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The National Defense Act was passed, and funding was available for furthering advanced mathematics programs for the first time.

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This created funding for STEM related fields in school specifically mathematics

It was one of the most influential plans to have ever been placed in our education system because we were officially racing other countries to be the leaders in math across the world even  though we did not apply research to these reforms

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In 1959 we had our first official national reform proposal which would switch our education system across the country to be teaching advanced math
·        This was called “modern mathematics”

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In 1963 we started the second phase of this plan the Cooperative Research act
In 1963 we did a survey that told us that we were not teaching a wide enough range of topics to lead to future success especially in rural areas

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College Board survey found that 30% of schools did not teach topics, such as set theory, probability, real numbers, and calculus.

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And in 1965 the elementary and secondary education act
These acts allowed for the continuation of funding to mathematic programs continuing its advancement

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Standardized test scores decreased slightly. 'Back-to-Basics" programs established higher standards of accountability.

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More experimental programs set in schools as a call for 'excellence'.