ABSTRACT
The primary focus of the lesson study was to see how connecting mathematics to experience in various ways, such as analysing the links between mathematics and music and participating in the experiment to be critiqued, would encourage engagement and influence reasoning. Ultimately, the designed lesson was successful in engaging students in analysing the connections between music, mathematics and intelligence and in critiquing the design of the experiment. In the other direction, as the Core Mathematics class that explores applications of previously learned mathematics, some of the formal understanding of sampling and experimental design may already be known to students, and the connections made to experience can then infuse those existing conceptions. Other approaches to building on the lesson include reinforcing some of the understanding developed so far by asking students to redesign and write up an improved experiment to test the Mozart effect.
