Mathematics Curriculum in Pacific Rim Countries- China Japan Korea and Singapore Proceedings of a Conference (PB)

A volume in Research in Mathematics EducationSeries Editor Barbara J. Dougherty University of MississippiThis volume contains the proceedings of the First International Curriculum Conference sponsored by theCenter for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum (CSMC). The CSMC is one of the National Science FoundationCenters for Learning and Teaching (Award No. ESI-0333879).The countries-China Japan Korea and Singapore (in alphabetical order which also happens to be theorder of their populations)-have each been in the news because of their performance on international testsand/or their economic performance and potential. They also have centralized education ministries that createa single mathematics curriculum framework followed in the entire country.