We explored why U.S. schoolchildren score below their Japanese cohorts on mathematics tests. Fifth-graders in Japan and the United States took a test of mathematics achievement that evaluated computational skill and a test of mathematical problem solving that evaluated problem-representation and solution-planning skills
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