PIAGET'S CONSTRUCTIVISM AND CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN JAPAN

sities. Applying Piaget's insights, Tohyama worked with classroom teachers who agreed about the importance of children's thinking and wanted to get away from memorization and repetition. Tohyama conceptualized a new theory of teaching arithmetic called 'Suidoh' and invented a new material called 'tiles'. Tiles are like Dienes' base-ten blocks ................
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