Last year I had the chance to do a few days work for a Japanese Mathematics textbook series translated in English. I just received an e-mail from one of the editors that the publisher is selling the books at 50% off. It will only cost about US$75 for the set of 11 books until September 2011. After September the set will cost about $US150. 00, the latest edition. I don’t have a copy yet of the books so I cannot show here a page but my colleague and I did some editing for Grades 5 and 6 and we think that the Japanese really have a very different approach in teaching mathematics be it in textbooks and in teaching. There’s a very strong emphasis on developing mathematical thinking (I saw several lesson study demonstration teaching while there. Our Institute also had a 5-year math and science teaching project with Japanese educators). The solutions shown and the structure of the books model how students in that grade level think and would approach the problems. The books are a product of years of doing lesson study in mathematics. I love the section “Let’s think about how to…”
The schools where you teach may already have a prescribed textbook but you will have a great resource in designing your instruction with this set. Your school might even decide to use the textbooks.
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