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Societal differences and their influences on children's mathematics understanding

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England and Taiwan are two societies in which the languages, the rationales of education, the teaching orientations and the learning motivations in school are very different. Would such differences influence children's mathematical understanding? This problem will be my main concern in this paper.

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For ideas and suggestions, I am grateful to A. J. Bishop, L. R. Booth and K. M. Hart. For long term cooperation, I thank F. P. Kuo and K. H, Lin. Professor Lin, K. H., is the statistician of the MUT programme. For sharing their data with me, I also thank J. S. Yang and L. C. Tsao, Tsao is the member of the mathematics wing in Wang'set al. (1985) study.

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Lin, FL. Societal differences and their influences on children's mathematics understanding. Educ Stud Math 19, 471–497 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00578695

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