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Time and Flow as Parameters in International Comparisons: A View from an Eighth Grade Algebra Lesson
Download full textFried, Michael N.; Amit, Miriam – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This paper compares the way lessons on systems of linear equations unfold in a classroom in the Negev region of Israel with the way they unfold in a Shanghai and Hong Kong classroom. Lessons are viewed as temporal entities describable not only by the nexus of topics they contain but also by how they flow in time. In this light, the lessons in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Cultural Differences, Algebra
