Overview
- Shows how teachers can apply the principles of Japanese Lesson Study to teach the multiplication of natural numbers
- Presents an approach to mathematics education that reconciles the emphasis on problem solving with the treatment of the curricular contents
- Provides examples of how a method developed in Japan can be adapted to different cultural contexts, such as the Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries of Ibero-America
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Japanese Approach for Multiplication: Comparison with other Countries, and Theoretical, Historical, and Empirical Analysis for Lesson Study
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Front Matter
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Ibero and Ibero-American Contributions for the Teaching of Multiplication
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Curriculum
- Lesson study
- Teaching multiplication
- Comparative education
- Ethnomathematics
- Mathematics education in Japan
- Mathematics education in Latin America
- Learning to multiply
- Multiply by zero
- Multiplication facts
- Multiplication properties
- Algorithms to multiply
- Vertical multiplication
- Mathematics teacher education
- Instructional activities and practices
- Elementary school education
- Problem solving
- Mathematics textbooks
- open access
About this book
This open access book is intended to assist teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers, editors and authors of textbooks in developing strategies to teach the multiplication of natural numbers based on the experience of the Lesson Study in Japan. This approach to mathematics education dates back to the 1870s and reconciles the emphasis on problem solving with the treatment of the curricular contents. It has gained international recognition since the 1990s and thanks to it mathematics education in Japan has been recognized as one of the most efficient and innovative in the world.
This growing international awareness has led to an effort to apply the principles of Lesson Study to other parts of the world and this book shows how experienced authors from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain and Portugal have worked to adapt some of these methods and techniques to the Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries of Ibero-America.Drawing on the impact of Lesson Studyon government curriculum decisions and teacher behavior in Japanese classrooms; offering examples of lessons, lesson plans and suggestions for teaching; and presenting examples of the good reception of the principles of Lesson Study in Ibero-America, Teaching Multiplication with Lesson Study – Japanese and Ibero-American Theories for Mathematics Education shows how an efficient and cutting-edge experience in mathematics education can travel the world and help teachers in many different countries.
Reviews
“Teaching Multiplication with Lesson Study: Japanese and Ibero-American Theories for International Mathematics Education can be recommended to mathematics teachers all around the world regardless of the curriculum and textbooks used in each country. This book offers the reader the opportunity to have a wider perspective in the teaching and learning of mathematics. This book has many strengths and provides teachers with several new ideas for teaching multiplication which can assist them in designing meaningful learning and learning methods.” (Ahbi Mahdianing Rum, Ahmad Hasan Saifurrisal and Mia Roosmalisa Dewi, Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 114 (3), 2023)
“This book offers valuable insights about teaching multiplication and about lesson study. … I highly recommend this book as an excellent resource for those involved with teaching multiplication or teaching elementary teachers. It provides compelling justification for the importance of using proper and consistent terminology, understanding the definitions of multiplication, posing open-ended tasks, and having an insightful questioning strategy.” (Mary Beth Rollick, MAA Reviews, May 9, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Raimundo Olfos, PhD, is an associated professor of the Mathematics Institute of the School of Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile, where he is a teacher of the graduate program in Mathematics Didactics. As an assessor for public policies he has contributed to the ministries of Education in Chile and Peru. As a researcher he has published more than 30 papers and authored 5 books. His main research interests are curriculum development and assessment in mathematics education, and he leads communities of Lesson Study Groups in Chile and Colombia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teaching Multiplication with Lesson Study
Book Subtitle: Japanese and Ibero-American Theories for International Mathematics Education
Editors: Masami Isoda, Raimundo Olfos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28561-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28560-9Published: 24 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28563-0Published: 21 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28561-6Published: 23 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 296
Number of Illustrations: 149 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mathematics Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Curriculum Studies, International and Comparative Education