ZDM – The International Journal on Mathematics Education – has published the November issue of 2009 (Volume 41, Number 6). The issue contains the following nine articles:

• Curriculum research to improve teaching and learning: national and cross-national studies, by Gerald Kulm and Yeping Li
• Mathematics teachers’ practices and thinking in lesson plan development: a case of teaching fraction division, by Yeping Li, Xi Chen and Gerald Kulm
• Approaches and practices in developing school mathematics textbooks in China, by Yeping Li, Jianyue Zhang and Tingting Ma
• Mathematics curriculum: a vehicle for school improvement, by Christian R. Hirsch and Barbara J. Reys
• School mathematics curriculum materials for teachers’ learning: future elementary teachers’ interactions with curriculum materials in a mathematics course in the United States, by Gwendolyn Monica Lloyd
• How a standards-based mathematics curriculum differs from a traditional curriculum: with a focus on intended treatments of the ideas of variable, by Bikai Nie, Jinfa Cai and John C. Moyer
• Cross-cultural issues in linguistic, visual-quantitative, and written-numeric supports for mathematical thinking, by Karen C. Fuson and Yeping Li
• Conceptualizing and organizing content for teaching and learning in selected Chinese, Japanese and US mathematics textbooks: the case of fraction division, by Yeping Li, Xi Chen and Song An
• Cross-national comparisons of mathematics curriculum materials: what might we learn? by Edward A. Silver

The article by Karen C. Fuson and Yeping Li is an Open Access article, so that one should be available to all, even non-subscribers 🙂