Low achievement in reading is a concern in a suburban school in the southeastern part of Florida. In an attempt to combat this issue, the school's administration has focused on teaching disciplinary literacy in content area classes, specifically social studies. In addition, the state standards also require that social studies teachers meet the…

The goal of this research study was to gain an understanding of high school teachers' perceptions of the role of history of mathematics in the classroom as well as their underlying view of mathematics as a discipline. High school teachers from 379 Public High Schools in Massachusetts were contacted and encouraged to take an on-line Likert scale…