A critical review of the Newly Proposed National Curriculum of the I.R. of Iran with emphasis on the Mathematics Curriculum

The paper has a glance at the newly released National Curriculum document in Iran. Then، there is an emphasis on the mathematics curriculum as one of the major learning areas of this and every curriculum document at local or national level as well. The paper continues with a glimpse of historical overview of curriculum development movements in Iran and worldwide. Further، with a slight tolerance، the paper refers to the “Education Constitution” (Ghanoon e Asasi e Ma’aref) as the first national curriculum document in Iran، and after that، focuses on the mathematics learning area of the new document using the qualitative content analysis. At last، some speculations about the ways in which a curriculum document could lead to the development of a mathematics curriculum and mathematics textbook are presented.