Essays on Education


This website is dedicated to Japanese elementary school teachers, who are primarily
responsible for the quality of Japanese education. Its purpose is to present facts about their
professional activities, their teaching methods in mathematics, the role teachers
play in their system and the surprising origins of some of these features.






The essays are provided in Portable Document Format (PDF).
If you need to download a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, which will
enable you to read and print the essays, click the Adobe link


The Real Source of Success
in Japanese Education

Quality vs. Quantity

Origins of Success, Present and Past


The Common Sense of Copying

The Illusion of Rigor

Multiplication, Semantics and History




 


 
 
 
 
 
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