Knowing and teaching elementary mathematics

By Liping Ma

Subjects: Mathématiques, Étude et enseignement (Primaire), Mathematics, Qa135.5 .m22 1999, Mathematics, study and teaching (elementary), Education, china, Mathematics--study and teaching (elementary), Comparative education, 372.7/0973, Education, united states, Study and teaching (Elementary), Éducation comparée, Mathematics--study and teaching (elementary)--china, Étude et enseignement (primaire), Mathematics--study and teaching (elementary)--united states, Schulmathematik

Description: Studies of teachers in the U.S. often document insufficient subject matter knowledge in mathematics. Yet, these studies give few examples of the knowledge teachers need to support teaching, particularly the kind of teaching demanded by recent reforms in mathematics education. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics describes the nature and development of the knowledge that elementary teachers need to become accomplished mathematics teachers, and suggests why such knowledge seems more common in China than in the United States, despite the fact that Chinese teachers have less formal education than their U.S. counterparts.