Abstracts of the First Sourcebook on Asian Research in Mathematics Education

Mathematics and Science education have both grown in fertile directions indifferent geographic regions. Yet, the mainstream discourse in international handbooks does not lend voice todevelopments in cognition, curriculum, teacher development, assessment, policy and implementation ofmathematics and science in many countries. Paradoxically, in spite of advances in information technology andthe "flat earth" syndrome, old distinctions and biases between different groups of researcher''s persist. In additionlimited accessibility to conferences and journals also contribute to this problem.The International Sourcebooks in Mathematics and Science Education focus on under-represented regions of theworld and provides a platform for researchers to showcase their research anddevelopment in areas within mathematics and science education.The First Sourcebook on Asian Research in Mathematics Education: China,Korea, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and India provides the first synthesizedtreatment of mathem