by Catherine Lewis | May 27, 2020
From San Francisco Examiner, December 2019. Excerpt: Look all over the country and the story of urban education is consistent. There is an achievement gap that is as predictable as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. Schools with a majority...
by Michael Nicoloff | Mar 12, 2018
Originally published by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2010. Excerpt: Results from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) suggested that the nature of mathematics teaching in Japan is different from that commonly seen in the United...
by Michael Nicoloff | Mar 12, 2018
From The New York Times Magazine. Excerpt: When Akihiko Takahashi was a junior in college in 1978, he was like most of the other students at his university in suburban Tokyo. He had a vague sense of wanting to accomplish something but no clue what that something...
by Michael Nicoloff | Mar 12, 2018
From NAIS online, 2014. Abstract: In Japan, math educators have been thinking about how to develop problem-solving for several decades. This article walks through a typical 5th grade teaching through problem solving mathematics lesson highlighting some of the...
