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Jo Boaler just showed me what a typical Japanese textbook looks like. Check out the thickness… Not!pic.twitter.com/Vtdln8YEOR
In the next series of tweets, I’ll show you just how much thinking is expected from students. I love how conceptual and interesting these textbooks are. And this is for fifth grade!pic.twitter.com/cdj4NluA3J
If you really want to know about this stuff, the person to talk to is Catherine Lewis: http://bit.ly/2v3sMJr Be sure to ask her about Tsubota Kozo, the greatest master of elementary Japanese mathematics pedagogy in living memory. The Japanese have achieved astonishing things
See also (or perhaps first of all) this still-remarkably-on-point anthology of first-rate work on Japanese approaches to pedagogy (including math, music, etc.): https://amzn.to/2FejVrd
An absolutely crucial point that most people fail to make is that elementary mathematics teachers in Japan devote a great deal of time and effort to making the classroom a place where students are comfortable making conjectures and being wrong. This is hard, subtle work.
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