Responding to the challenge of [NAR], the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) convened its first meeting in 1986 for the purpose of drafting a reform document. The NCTM Standards ([N1]) is the outcome. Such an abbreviated account of the genesis of the current reform is of course over-simplified. A Nation at Risk may have spawned the idea of reform, but what ultimately brought it to reality was the business commu- nity. When the poor performance of high school graduates in the high-tech workforce began to hamper the development of industries, especially the high-tech industries, business leaders took note. Workers are needed who are capable of more than.
