Abstract
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recently published Principles and Standards for School Mathematics: Discussion Draft (1998b). Included in the Equity Principle is a definition for "all students". Upon review of this definition, as well as the draft itself, students with special needs seem to have been overlooked. With the recent trend of including students with disabilities in the regular education programs, certain modifications for implementing the curriculum will need to be made for these students to be successful.
The purpose of this paper is to suggest to the authors of the Standards to specifically mention students with special needs in the definition and also provide suggestions of strategies that aid in the instruction of these students in the regular education classroom. Recommendations where these strategies can be addressed in the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics are mentioned as well.