The December issue of ZDM is out, and it contains 12 interesting articles. The theme of the issue is “An Asia Pacific focus on Mathematics Classrooms:

• Editorial to the issue “An Asia Pacific focus on mathematics classrooms”, by Chap Sam Lim, Allan White and Berinderjeet Kaur
• Lesson study in Asia Pacific classrooms: local responses to a global movement, by Allan Leslie White and Chap Sam Lim
• Reforming mathematics learning in Indonesian classrooms through RME, by Robert K. Sembiring, Sutarto Hadi and Maarten Dolk (Freely available Open Access article!)
• Exploring Japanese teachers’ conception of mathematics lesson structure: similarities and differences between pre-service and in-service teachers’ lesson plans, by Yoshinori Shimizu
• Teaching and learning of mathematics: what really matters to teachers and students?, by Berinderjeet Kaur
• Distinguishing between mathematics classrooms in Australia, China, Japan, Korea and the USA through the lens of the distribution of responsibility for knowledge generation: public oral interactivity and mathematical orality, by David Clarke and Li Hua Xu
• Confucian heritage culture learner’s phenomenon: from “exploring the middle zone” to “constructing a bridge”, by Ngai-Ying Wong
• In the books there are golden houses: mathematics assessment in East Asia, by Frederick K. S. Leung
• An overview of the gender factor in mathematics in TIMSS-2003 for the Asia-Pacific region, by Jaguthsing Dindyal
• Teaching and learning of inclusive and transitive properties among quadrilaterals by deductive reasoning with the aid of SmartBoard, by Issic K. C. Leung
• A Sino-German semi-virtual seminar in mathematics education, by Matthias Ludwig, Wolfgang Müller and Binyan Xu
• U. D’Ambrosio (2006). Ethnomathematics: Link between traditions and modernity (A. Kepple, Trans.), by Hugh Burkhardt (Book review)