Jo Boaler just showed me what a typical Japanese textbook looks like. Check out the thickness… Not!pic.twitter.com/Vtdln8YEOR
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For whatever it's worth, my own take is that the greatest Japanese pedagogue of elementary mathematics now in the classroom is Takii Akira. It is hard to exaggerate how skilled he is. Watching him work is not unlike watching Roger Federer play tennis. Breathtaking.
Most people, alas, have never seen, and will never see, anything like it. Great classroom teaching is rare, and opportunities to observe it even rarer; this should change. Of course just observing isn't enough; you can't become a magician just by watching shows. But it's a start.
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