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Liping Ma earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University, following a masters degree in education from East China Normal University. After a term as a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, she is now an independent scholar. She served as a member of the National mehr anzeigen Mathematics Advisory Panel from 2006 to 2008. weniger anzeigen
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Though it is a fleshed-out dissertation it's quite approachable. I have no formal training in education and found it productive to read.
It was very interesting to think about what my own answers to the interview questions would be and compare and contrast to the Chinese and American teachers. I didn't expect to learn things about elementary mathematics in the process, but I did, which was a pleasant surprise. It also lends a lot of weight to the point that even "elementary" mathematics rewards repeated study.
I do wonder how different schools in both China and America are now, twenty years later. Have the two countries diverged more as the various feedback loops discussed in the book have continued?… (mehr)