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A comparative study of content settings of mathematics curriculum standards from China, Australia, and Finland
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posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by Y Y Kang, Y M Cao, Lihua XuLihua Xu, D ClarkeThe study investigated the mathematics curricula standards set by the governments in China, Australia(Victoria) and Finland in the aspects of the amount of content statements, the structure of content areas, level of details, level of requirement, the distribution of content, and the changes of content areas. The results show that China's mathematics standard has the biggest amount of and the most detailed content statements; that of Australia is in the second place; and Finnish standard has the least amount of content statements that are very general. The standards in all three countries emphasize numbers and operation and geometry.However,China's standards present a dynamic change, with different focus for different grades; Australian standards have similar proportion of each part of content for different grades and the amount of each part increases with grade; there is no fixed setting and proportion of content in Finnish standard, which is not confined by any mode.
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Journal of educational studiesVolume
8Issue
1Pagination
62 - 66Publisher
Beijing Shifan Daxue ChubansheLocation
Beijing, ChinaISSN
1673-1298Language
chiPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
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