The Curriculum Principle

I had never really thought of curriculum being a principle of mathematics. After reading what was stated in Principles & Standards for School Mathematics I feel I have a better understanding of why curriculum is so important for mathematics. It is very important for the mathematics curriculum to be taught in a way that shows how all things math are interconnected. By showing students how everything is related it will hopefully help them to have a better understanding of math concepts. Teachers should also be teaching the important mathematics. Teachers should be teaching the concepts that will lead to other more involved concepts, help them appreciate math more, and help them in math and outside of math. It is also important for teachers to realize that these important concepts are always changing depending on what is going on in the world. I had also never realized how important it was to communicate across the grade lines for math. Teachers should be talking to each other so they can know what level their students are at so they do not re-teach things they already know or move into a topic that is not connected to what they learned the previous year.