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Features and Characteristics of Chinese New Century Mathematics Textbooks

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The 21st Century Mathematics Education in China

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Unified curriculum standards (or teaching and learning syllabus) provide uniform guidelines from all teaching and learning activities in different grades levels across China under a centralized education system. Without exception, the textbooks using in schools are also designed in accordance with the beliefs advocated by these official documents. This chapter reports the common features and characteristics (such as the emphasis on the knowledge learning and its applications) of several series school textbooks were and are used in the twenty-first century with the major beliefs presented in the standards or syllabus. It aims to show the essences kept in the New Century mathematics textbooks which reflects the major reforms happened on the textbooks development.

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    Haidong Li

  2. Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

    Na Li

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    Frederick K.S. Leung

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Li, H., Li, N. (2018). Features and Characteristics of Chinese New Century Mathematics Textbooks. In: Cao, Y., Leung, F. (eds) The 21st Century Mathematics Education in China. New Frontiers of Educational Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55781-5_9

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