ABSTRACT
Offering voices from the field – the first of its kind outside of Japan – this guide to teaching and learning elementary mathematics highlights real case examples from teachers and educators who share what they have learned through Lesson Study.
The teachers’ reports provide vivid examples of new insights and ideas about mathematics, about pedagogy and lesson design, about student learning, and about professional collaboration gained through Lesson Study. Each report includes an abbreviated plan of the specific research lesson that led to the new insights, which readers can draw from to replicate the powerful learning in their own community. The case examples of this book are from Lesson Study in mathematics, elementary to lower secondary grade levels, focused on what teachers and educators have learned about improving mathematics teaching and learning; but many ideas from each report can be applied to other subjects and different grade levels.
This unique book will be an excellent resource for mathematics teachers in training and practice who seek to improve mathematics teaching and learning in their own and others’ classrooms, including researchers and school administrators who lead professional development.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|25 pages
How we expect Lesson Study to contribute to the quality of teaching and learning
part II|49 pages
What we learned about the contents we teach
chapter |8 pages
"Doing the math"
chapter |14 pages
To add or subtract, that is the question
chapter |8 pages
Expanding the meaning of multiplication
chapter |8 pages
Conceptualizing equivalent expressions through problem-solving
chapter |7 pages
Expanding my conception of place value
part III|27 pages
What we learned about lesson design and pedagogy
chapter |8 pages
Designing lessons students lead
chapter |7 pages
Creating meaning with data and graphing
chapter |8 pages
Boardwork as a roadmap
part IV|48 pages
What we learned about student
chapter |11 pages
An upper elementary teacher learns about making ten in first grade
chapter |10 pages
Discovering numbers greater than 1000
chapter |8 pages
Student learning: addition with fractions
chapter |7 pages
Student learning: division with remainders
chapter |8 pages
Student learning: multi-digit multiplication algorithm
part V|38 pages
What we learned about teacher collaboration and leadership
chapter |7 pages
Teacher collaboration: the growth of Lesson Study in one school
chapter |8 pages
Teachers solving their own problems of practice
chapter |11 pages
Lesson Study and the new teacher
chapter |7 pages
Building district infrastructure for Lesson Study: designing educator support centering our students at the margins
part VI|9 pages
Ideas for establishing sustainable Lesson Study – what we learned from US schools