The Teacher Development Continuum in the United States and China: Summary of a Workshop

by National Research Council and U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction

In 1999, Liping Ma published her book Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in the United States and China, which probed the kinds of knowledge that elementary school teachers need to convey mathematical concepts and procedures effectively to their students. Later that year, Roger Howe, a member of the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction (USNC/MI), reviewed the book for the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309151635
• ISBN13: 9780309151634
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 68 Pages