Relations between the Discipline and the School Mathematics in Latin American and Caribbean Countries

More than half of the students in the Latin American and the Caribbean region are below Pisa level 1 which means that the majority of the students in our region cannot identify information and carry out routine procedures according to direct instructions in explicit situations. There have been some good experiences in each country to reverse the depicted situation but it is not enough and this is not happening in all countries. I will talk about these experiences. In all of them professional mathematicians need to help teachers to have the necessary knowledge, and become more effective instructors that can raise the standard of every student.