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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS
The AMS and Mathematics Education: The Revision of the "NCTM Standards"
Roger Howe
Howe serves as the chair of the AMS committee advising the NCTM on the revision of its standards for K-12 mathematics education. This article describes the revision and the issues the committee has considered. The two committee reports appear on pages 270-276.
When Is a Set of Lines in Space Convex?
Jacob E. Goodman
This article discusses a notion of convexity for sets of lines and higher-dimensional flats in Euclidean space that generalizes the notion of convexity of sets of points. Convex sets of lines exhibit some surprising behavior.