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Transforming Mathematics Instruction: What Do We Know and What Can We Learn from Multiple Approaches and Practices?

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Mathematics classroom instruction, often seen as a key contributing factor to students’ learning, has remained virtually unchanged for the past several decades. Efforts to improve the quality of mathematics education have led to multiple approaches and research that target different contributing factors but lack a systematic account of diverse approaches and practices for improving mathematics instruction. This book is thus designed to survey, synthesize, and extend current research on specific approaches and practices that are developed and used in different education systems for transforming mathematics instruction. In this introduction chapter, we highlight the background of this book project, its purposes, and what can be learned from reading this book.

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  1. Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, Texas A&M University, MS 4232, College Station, TX, 77843-4232, USA

    Yeping Li

  2. School of Education, University of Michigan, 610 E. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Edward A. Silver

  3. Department of Mathematics, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Rd., Shanghai, 200241, China

    Shiqi Li

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Li, Y., Silver, E.A., Li, S. (2014). Transforming Mathematics Instruction: What Do We Know and What Can We Learn from Multiple Approaches and Practices?. In: Li, Y., Silver, E., Li, S. (eds) Transforming Mathematics Instruction. Advances in Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04993-9_1

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