CB> about too much and never master concepts fully. 
CB>  Since postings are 
CB> no more
CB> than 5-10 posts per day, maybe you can review old postings.
CB> On ABC's evening news, the book for a Japanese 
CB> math course was shown 
CB> and 
CB> compared to a U.S. book. The Japanese book 
CB> looked like it had about 
CB> 80-100 
CB> pages to the U.S. book's 300+ pages.
 MS>     But what about print size, page margins, etc.?
 MS>     Not knowing Japanese, I don't know (and I doubt 
 MS> that the reporter did either) how the book 
 MS> compares to a U.S. counterpart in number of 
 MS> problems, total words, etc.
In the Japanese book, about 16 basic concepts were covered, the one for the 
U.S. had about 45 concepts.  The reporter that spoke was well informed by a 
U.S. group studying math instruction.
"Less is more" IE-with fewer concepts to learn, the Japanese students had 
more time to master them.
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