Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States | Education

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The 20th anniversary edition of this groundbreaking and bestselling volume offers powerful examples of the mathematics that can develop the thinking of elementary school children. 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 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 S…