Mathematics Education in Different Cultural Traditions- A Comparative Study of East Asia and the West
Publication year: 2006
ISBN: 978-0-387-29723-1
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The volume covers a very wide field including the contexts of mathematics education, the curriculum, teaching and learning, and teachers’ values and beliefs. Within these broad parameters some of the particular cross-cultural issues that are discussed include intuition and logical reasoning, influences of Confucianism and Ancient Greek traditions, basic skills and process abilities, learners’ perspectives, assessment practices, text books and ICT multimedia.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Arithmetic / Identity / PISA / calculus / communication / education / function / information / integration / mathematics / mathematics education
