Read Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States Liping Ma 8581000035640 Books

Product details Paperback 232 pages Publisher Routledge; 2 ANV edition (2010) Language English ISBN-10 9780415873840 ISBN-13 978-0415873840 ASIN 0415873843

Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States Liping Ma 8581000035640 Books Reviews

• I like the comparison even though In China elementary school teachers are departmentalized and focuses on small number of teachers on both sides, USA and China. The focus is what is our mistakes and how we can do better it is not to put USA down etc...
• Love this book. I have learned so much about conceptual knowledge as opposed to procedural that lacks complete understanding.
• This book clearly answers a lot of questions I have about the differences between Mathematics teaching in the US and Asia.
• Superb little book in mathematics education. I've been familiar with this classic for a long time and I consider it the best mathematics education book ever written. If only our country would do the same for preparation of elementary school teachers charge was teaching elementary mathematics. Her term PUFM, Profound Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics, is standard in her native China (with several fewer years of preparation) and all too rare with ours.
• We used this book in a state-sponsored course designed to improve the way mathematics is taught in the public schools.
  
  Mathematics teaching in the US has traditionally focused on teaching and memorizing procedures rather than understanding the underlying concepts and relationships - this book encourages teachers to question that.
  
  It may be a bit dry, but it is an excellent resource for those looking to improve their understanding of the important ideas in mathematics in order to improve the way they teach.
• Excellent depiction of the difference between American and Chinese math education.
• If you teach math at all this is the book you should read next.
• Interesting