Some characteristics of East Asian mathematics classrooms based on data from the TIMSS 1999 video study

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 199-215

  Leung, Frederick Koon Shing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Advanced mathematics content; Culture; East Asia; Mathematical language; Quality of teaching; Teacher directed classroom; Teacher talk; Video study

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944432208     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-005-3835-8     Document Type: Article

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