David Klein is a professor

Professor

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 of Mathematics at California State University in Northridge. He is an advocate of increasingly rigorous treatment of mathematics in school curricula and a frequently cited opponent of reforms based on the NCTM standards. One of the participants in the founding of Mathematically Correct

Mathematically Correct

Mathematically Correct is a website created by educators, parents, mathematicians, and scientists who were concerned about the direction of reform mathematics curricula based on NCTM standards...

, Klein is a popular figure in the Math Wars

Math wars

Math wars is the debate over modern mathematics education, textbooks and curricula in the United States that was triggered by the publication in 1989 of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and subsequent development and...

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External links

• Professor David Klein's campus home page
• Open Letter to Governor Schwarzenegger and Members of the California Legislature in support of California's Standards System for K-12 Education
• Why Johnny Can't Calculate by David Klein and Jennifer Marple, Los Angeles Times, September 26, 2005