Jo Boaler just showed me what a typical Japanese textbook looks like. Check out the thickness… Not! 
In the next series of tweets, I’ll show you just how much thinking is expected from students. I love how conceptual and interesting these textbooks are. And this is for fifth grade!
Notice they are suggesting different ways to solve the same problem. Just like real mathematicians do
Beautiful, different ways to understand why the angles of a triangle add up to 180°
Some serious creativity and thinking is expected of students. Why not! Come on America, wake up.
One place to read more about the Japanese approach as compared to the American approach is in the book “Building a Better Teacher” by Elizabeth Green, @elizwgreen: google.com/search?client=…
