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Mathematics education in China today: Four problem areas

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The realization that an educated citizenry is essential to China's modernization has led to the national goal of nine years of compulsory education for all students by the year 2000. Among the many and varied problems encountered in efforts to educate the masses are those existent in mathematics education. The authors identify and discuss four critical areas — educational theory, technology, instruction, and assessment of teaching — which are of immediate concern in the mathematics education of primary and secondary school students in China.

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  1. Western Kentucky University, Page Hall 319, 42101, Bowling Green, KY, USA

    Zhu Ziqiang & Eula Ewing Monroe

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Ziqiang, Z., Monroe, E.E. Mathematics education in China today: Four problem areas. Educ Stud Math 22, 205–208 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00555723

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