Context and teaching materials. The "Two Basics": Mathematics teaching and learning in mainland China -- A comparative study on composite difficulty between new and old Chinese mathematics textbooks -- Textbook use within and beyond Chinese mathematics classrooms: A study of 12 secondary schools in Kunming and Fuzhou of China -- Thorough understanding of the textbook: A significant feature of Chinese teacher manuals -- Effects of cram schools on children's mathematics learning.
Inspiration and future directions. The CHC learner's phenomenon: Its implications an mathematics education -- How do Chinese learn mathematics? Some evidence-based insights and needed directions.
Overview and international perspectives. How have Chinese students performed in mathematics? A perspective from large-scale international Comparisons -- The mathematics curriculum: Toward globalization or westernization? -- Thinking mathematically by Chinese learners: A cross-national comparative perspective -- An examination of coherence in a Chinese mathematics classroom -- A Chinese cultural model of learning -- Official curriculum in mathematics in ancient China: How did candidates study for the examination?
Pedagogy and learning processes. Teaching with variation: A Chinese way of promoting effective mathematics learning -- Cracking the paradox of Chinese learners: Looking into the mathematics classrooms in Hong Kong and Shanghai -- Identifying a pattern of teaching: An analysis of a Shanghai teacher's lessons -- Differences within communalities: How is mathematics taught in rural and urban regions in mainland China? -- Teaching approach: Theoretical or experimental? -- Capturing the Chinese way of teaching: The learning-questioning and learning-reviewing instructional model -- The effects of different representations on mathematics learning of Chinese children.
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The book has been written by an international group of very activeresearchers and scholars who have a passion for the study of Chinesemathematics education. It aims to provide readers with a comprehensiveand updated picture of the teaching and learning of mathematicsinvolving Chinese students from various perspectives, including theways in which Chinese students learn mathematics in classrooms, schools and homes, the influence of the cultural and socialenvironment on Chinese students' mathematics learning, and thestrengths and weaknesses of the ways in which Chinese learnmathematics.