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  title info:
    title: Algebra Teaching around the World
  name:
    name part: Leung, Frederick K. S.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Park, Kyungmee.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Holton, Derek.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Clarke, David.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 264 p. online resource.
  abstract: Utilizing the LPS dataset, Algebra Teaching around the World documents eighth grade algebra teaching across a variety of countries that differ geographically and culturally. Different issues in algebra teaching are reported, and different theories are used to characterize algebra lessons or to compare algebra teaching in different countries. Many commonalities in algebra teaching around the world are identified, but there are also striking and deep-rooted differences. The different ways algebra was taught in different countries point to how algebra teaching may be embedded in the culture and the general traditions of mathematics education of the countries concerned. In particular, a comparison is made between algebra lessons in the Confucian-Heritage Culture (CHC) countries and ‘Western’ countries. It seems that a common emphasis of algebra teaching in CHC countries is the ‘linkage’ or ‘coherence’ of mathematics concepts, both within an algebraic topic and between topics. On the other hand, contemporary algebra teaching in many Western school systems places increasing emphasis on the use of algebra in mathematical modeling in ‘real world’ contexts and in the instructional use of metaphors, where meaning construction is assisted by invoking contexts outside the domain of algebraic manipulation, with the intention to helping students to form connections between algebra and other aspects of their experience. Algebra Teaching around the World should be of value to researchers with a focus on algebra, pedagogy or international comparisons of education. Because of the pedagogical variations noted here, there is a great deal of material that will be of interest to both teachers and teacher educators.
  note: edited by Frederick K. S. Leung, Kyungmee Park, Derek Holton, David Clarke.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Education, general
  classification: L1-991
  classification: 370
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Series Preface
  identifier: 9789462097070
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-707-0
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    record creation date: 141013
    record change date: 20151204144322.0
    record identifier: 978-94-6209-707-0