Real-life connections in Japan and the Netherlands : National teaching patterns and cultural beliefs

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The TIMSS 1999 Video Study revealed that Japan had the lowest (of the seven\nparticipating countries) amount of real-life connections in the eight grade\nmathematics classrooms, whereas the Netherlands had the highest amount of\nconnections with real life. This article examines more closely how these ideas\nwere actually implemented by teachers in these two countries. A comparison of\nthe national teaching patterns and the cultural beliefs concerning real-life\nconnections indicate that Japanese teachers might actually follow some of the\nideas and principles of the Dutch tradition of Realistic Mathematics Education to\na stronger degree than Dutch teachers.

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