Many Visions, Many Aims(TIMSS Volume 1) »

Which goals and standards guide mathematics education across the world? This first report of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) explores this question by examining the rich data collected in the TIMSS Curriculum Analysis.
This is a study without precedent in scale or detail. It includes an exhaustive, page-by-page inventory of mathematics content and other pedagogical characteristics collected from hundreds of textbooks and curriculum guides from almost 50 countries. These data document many important features of these countries' mathematics education curricula.
The book examines important features of curriculum policy across the TIMSS countries, especially the role of textbooks and curriculum guides. It also portrays similarities and differences in mathematics curricula in the succession of objectives across grades. Additionally, it details characteristics of the mathematics curriculum as embodied in textbooks and curriculum guides intended for select grades.
This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with mathematics education standards, curriculum policy, cross-national educational comparisons, and mathematics pedagogy.

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In the first of three volumes, the Third International Mathematics and Science Study explores which goals and standards guide mathematics education across the world. It inventories mathematics content and other pedagogical characteristics collected in 1990 and 1991 from hundreds of textbooks and curriculum guides from almost 50 countries. The data is also used to illustrate differences and similarities among countries and grade levels, directing curriculum by intention, the intended flow of mathematics curricula, milestones, emphasized topics, performance expectations, disciplinary perspectives, and other aspects. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.