APEC - TSUKUBA International Conference

"Innovative Teaching Mathematics
through Lesson Study"

Abstract

The "APEC - TSUKUBA International Conference" has been held in Tokyo in January 2006.
Abstract of the conference is as follows.

Date:	January 15th - 20th, 2006
Place:	JICA Institute for International Cooperation (10-5 Honmura-cho Ichigaya Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8433) http://www.jica.go.jp/branch/ific/map/
Host organization:	University of Tsukuba
Co-sponsors:	Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Supporters' organization:	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA) Japan Society of Mathematical Education (JSME) Japan Society for Science Education (JSSE)

Program

1) 15 January 2006 Place:JICA Institute for International Cooperation

Symposium on International Cooperation
"Improving the Quality of Education for Developing Numeracy on Education for All:Planning the International Collaboration for Future"

9:00 Open

9:30 Opening Ceremony: CRICED

Greeting Address: Kazuhisa Matsuoka, Director of JICA
Tadao Nakahara, President of Japan Society of Mathematical Education
Masakata Ogawa, President of Japan Society for Science Education

Keynote Address: Mathematical Literacy for Living from OECD-PISA perspective

Jan de Lange, Director of Freudenthal Institute (Chair, OECD-PISA techn ical committee)

Keynote Address: Japanese Lesson Study for Developing Best Practice

Akihiko Takahashi, DePaul University (Slide PDF: 190KB)
Shizumi Shimizu (University of Tsukuba (Slide PDF: 1040KB)

12:00 Lunch Break

13:00 Panel for sharing the ideas of projects: planning international cooperation on Numeracy

Lecture:

Status of Cooperation in Mathematics and Science Education by JICA Masazumi Ogawa (JICA)
(Slide in Japanese PDF: 34KB)
(Slide in English PDF : 41KB)

Presentation: Project Report:

South Africa Ronel Paulsen
(Slide PDF: 208KB)

Kenya Nancy Wambui Nui,
Alice Nyacomba Wahome
(Slide PDF: 104KB)

Egypt Nasser Elsayed Abdel-hamid Ebada
(Slide PDF: 477KB)

Indonesia ABDUL KARIM, Muchtar
(Slide PDF: 96KB)

Honduras Jose Gerardo Fuentes
(Slide PDF: 211KB)

Panel discussion: Moderator: Takuya Baba (Hiroshima University)

16:50 Closing Ceremony:

17:30 Social:

2) 16 January 2006 JICA Institute for International Cooperation

APEC Symposium
"Innovative Teaching Mathematics through Lesson Study"

9:00 Open

9:30 Opening Ceremony: CRICED

Greeting Address: Yoichi Iwasaki, President of the University of Tsukuba
Masayuki Inoue, Director-General for International Affairs, MEXT
Chira Hongladarom, APEC HRDWG Lead Shepherd

Keynote Address 1: Lesson Study in North America: Progress and Challenges

Catherine Lewis (USA)
( ppt pdf: 114KB), (Paper pdf: 314 KB)

Keynote Address 2: Comparative Study of Mathematics Classrooms

Frederick Leung (Hong Kong)
( ppt pdf: 383KB), (Paper pdf: 173 KB)

12:00 Lunch Break

13:00 Lecture 1: Innovation of mathematics teaching with ICT

Yasuyuki Iijima (Japan)
(ppt pdf: 219KB) , (Paper pdf: 1413 KB)

Lecture 2: Mathematics lessons in Korea

Park Kyungmee (South Korea)
( ppt pdf: 1296KB), (Paper pdf: 110 KB)

Lecture 3: Open-ended Approach and Teacher Education

Maitree Inprasitha (Thailand)
(ppt pdf: 136KB), ( Paper pdf: 142 KB)

General Discussion: Developing Research for Good Practice and its Methods
ModeratorF Tad Watanabe (Pennsylvania State University)

16:50 Closing Ceremony:

18:00 Reception:

3) 16 - 20 January 2006

APEC Specialist session
"International Workshop on Innovative Teaching Mathematics through Lesson Study"

16th After open Symposium Openning of Specialist Session
(PlaceFJICA Institute for International Cooperation)

17th Morning School visitFAttached Elementary School of University of Tsukuba

Afternoon Presentation and Discussion
(PlaceFTokyo Campus of the University of Tsukuba G206)

18th Morning School visitFAttached Secondary School of University of Tsukuba

Afternoon Presentation and Discussion
(PlaceFTokyo Campus of the University of Tsukuba G206)

19th Presentation and Discussion
(PlaceFJICA Institute for International Cooperation)

20th Morning General Discussion and closing
(PlaceFJICA Institute for International Cooperation)

Papers presented at Specialist Session

Masami Isoda, Japan (pdf: 520 KB)

Akihiko Takahashi, Tad Watanabe, Makoto Yoshida, USA (pdf: 83 KB)

Lim Chap Sam, Malaysia (pdf: 129 KB)

Marsigit, Indonesia (pdf: 91 KB)

Yeap Ban Har, Singapore (pdf: 32 KB)

Maitree Inprasitha, Suladda Loipha, Ladda Silanoi, Thailand (pdf: 142 KB)

Max Stephens, Australia (pdf: 44 KB)

Grecia Galvez Perez, Chile (pdf: 496 KB)

Le Hai Koi, Viet Nam (pdf: 433 KB)

Tran Vui, Viet Nam (pdf: 328 KB)

Soledad A. Ulep, Philippines (pdf: 43 KB)

Dan Zhang, Shangzhi Wang, China (pdf: 73 KB)

Poster download

PDF file(in English) [143KB]

PDF file(in Japanese) [156KB]

Organizing Committee

Chair	Masami Isoda	(University of Tsukuba)
Program Chair	Shizumi Shimizu	(University of Tsukuba)
Committee	Kazuyoshi Okubo Yoshinori Shimizu Minoru Yoshida Noboru Saito Takuya Baba Hiroyuki Ninomiya	(Hokkaido University of Education) (University of Tsukuba) (Shinsyu University) (Naruto University of Education) (Hiroshima University) (Ehime University)

Contact

1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba-shi Ibaraki-ken, 305-8572
Center for Research on International Cooperation in Education Development (CRICED)
Tel : +81-29-853-6573 Fax: +81-29-853-7288 email: apec@criced.tsukuba.ac.jp

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