Forum, Volume 43, Number 12

E. H. Moore’s Retiring Address as AMS president took place in 1902. Moore had a firm commitment to both teaching and research, but the theme of his address centered on mathematics education. On the role of the AMS in education he said: “Do you not feel with me that the AMS, as the organic representative of the highest interests of mathematics in this country, should be directly related with the movement of [education] reform?” ([7], p. 671) With the current mathematics education reform movement in place for almost a decade, Moore’s words of a century ago become all the more relevant now. The “reform” referred to in this article will cover both the K–12 mathematics education reform and the calculus reform, since these two reforms share an almost identical outlook and ideology. (See, for example, [29].) Unbeknownst to most mathematicians, the AMS has already taken part in this reform: p. vi of the NCTM Standards [18]1 carries the following statement: ENDORSERS