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Book Review of Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning.)

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This is a benchmark book in the field of mathematics education. Written as a doctoral thesis, this book explores the difference between teacher education in China and the US. While the US teachers come out looking really bad, there is lots to be gleaned about mathematics education in the US today fromt this book.