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Wang, Jian; Lin, Emily – Educational Research Review, 2009
US and China are reforming mathematics teaching by shifting from students' attainment of facts and procedures toward development of competencies in reasoning, communication, connections, and problem solving, and application of these in real life contexts. Differences in students' overall performance, curricula, and teachers' knowledge and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Mathematics Instruction, Meta Analysis
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Zhou, Zheng; Peverly, Stephen T.; Xin, Tao – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2006
Guided by Shulman, 1986 and Shulman, 1987 tripartate model of teacher expertise [subject matter knowledge (SMK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and general pedagogical knowledge (GPK)], the present study examined 162 U.S. and Chinese 3rd grade mathematics teachers' expertise in teaching fractions. Results show that U.S. teachers lag…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries, Word Problems (Mathematics)