THE PARADIGM SHIFT IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION: A SCENARIO FOR CHANGE
With the advent of the third millennium, the mathematics education institutions seem to be in a "tempestuous" zone. While there is a great progress in mathematics as a discipline and as a recognized effective tool for the advancement in science and technology to the extent that high technology is considered as a mathematical technology (David, 1984), there is a distress and dissatisfaction with mathematics education in terms of its content, pedagogies and delivery system at all levels. In general there are poor outcomes in spite of the rich mandated objectives…