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Lesson Play in Mathematics Education:

A Tool for Research and Professional Development

  • Introduces and elaborates upon a novel tool, lesson play, in teacher education and professional development
  • Provides critical analyses of numerous plays created by prospective teachers, offering insight on teachers' pedagogical and subject matter knowledge
  • Provides a variety of scenarios and models for implementing the tool in mathematics teacher education and beyond
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Planning for Instruction

      • Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl
      Pages 3-9
    3. Introducing Lesson Play

      • Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl
      Pages 11-20
    4. Evolution of the Task

      • Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl
      Pages 21-30
  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
    2. Linear Measurement: How Long is a Stick?

      • Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl
      Pages 33-52
    3. On Divisibility by 4

      • Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl
      Pages 53-87
    4. On Prime Numbers

      • Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl
      Pages 89-109
    5. Repeating Patterns: Cars and Colours

      • Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl
      Pages 111-132
    6. On Comparing Fractions

      • Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl
      Pages 133-159
    7. Area and Perimeter: Melon Farm

      • Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl
      Pages 161-190
  4. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
    2. From Creation to Critique

      • Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl
      Pages 193-210
    3. Focus on Language

      • Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl
      Pages 211-226
    4. Images of Teaching

      • Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl
      Pages 227-270
    5. Multiple Uses of Lesson Play

      • Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl
      Pages 271-274
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 275-283

About this book

Lesson play is a novel construct in research and teachers’ professional development in mathematics education. Lesson play refers to a lesson or part of a lesson presented in dialogue form—inspired in part by Lakatos’s evocative Proofs and Refutations—featuring imagined interactions between a teacher and her/his students. We have been using and refining our use of this tool for a number of years and using it in a variety of situations involving mathematics thinking and learning. The goal of this proposed book is to offer a comprehensive survey of the affordances of the tool, the results of our studies—particularly in the area of pre-service teacher education, and the reasons that the tool offers such productive possibilities for both researchers and teacher educators.

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From the reviews:

“This interesting book gives a comprehensive overview of an innovative tool called lesson play in mathematics education. … this tool helps prospecting and practicing teachers to anticipate interactions or to think about questions and responses. … this book is not only well recommended because of its relevance to teachers, teacher educators or researchers in mathematics education. This book is also worth reading, because it presents an innovative and compelling perspective on the construct of lesson play, that is object of substantial research.” (Florian Schacht, zbMATH, Vol. 1272, 2013)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Fac. Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

    Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair

  • , Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

    Peter Liljedahl

About the authors

Rina Zazkis is a Professor at Simon Fraser University in the Faculty of Education and an Associate Member in the Department of Mathematics. Her research interests are in mathematics education at the undergraduate level and teacher education, focusing on the uses of mathematical knowledge in teaching. She conducted extensive research on teaching and learning of elementary Number Theory, which is summarized, in part, in her recent book Relearning mathematics: A challenge for prospective elementary school teachers, published by Information Age Publishing.

 

Nathalie Sinclair is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University in the Faculty of Education, an Associate Member in the Department of Mathematics, and a Canada Research Chair in Tangible Mathematics Learning. Her research interests focus on the use of expressive technologies in mathematics learning, with a growing attention to the primary school years, and on the role of aesthetics inmathematical thinking and learning. Recent books include Essential Understandings of Geometry (Grades 6-8 as well as 9-12), published by the NCTM and Mathematics and Beauty: Aesthetic approaches to teaching children, published by Teachers College Press.

 

Peter Liljedahl is Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University in the Faculty of Education and an Associate Member in the department of Mathematics. His research interests include instances of creativity, insight, and discovery in mathematics teaching and learning; mathematics and affect; professional growth of teachers; numeracy, and instructional design. He is a former high school mathematics teacher, who has kept his research interest and activities close to the classroom. He consults regularly with schools, school districts, and ministries of education on issues of teaching and learning, assessment and numeracy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Lesson Play in Mathematics Education:

  • Book Subtitle: A Tool for Research and Professional Development

  • Authors: Rina Zazkis, Nathalie Sinclair, Peter Liljedahl

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3549-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3548-8

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0055-8

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-3549-5

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 284

  • Topics: Mathematics Education, Teaching and Teacher Education

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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