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APEC - Tsukuba
International Conference on Innovative Teaching Mathematics
through Lesson Study
January 14 – January 201, 2006
Tokyo, JAPANA conference on the APEC project:“A collaborative study on innovations for teaching and learning mathematics in different
cultures among the APEC Member Economies”

General Introduction
At the third APEC Education Ministerial Meeting held on 29-30 April 2004 in Santiago,
the ministers defined the four priority areas for future network activities. “Stimulating
Learning in Mathematics and Science” is one of the four priority area. Based on thispriority, the APEC project “A Collaborative study on innovations for teaching andlearning mathematics in different cultures among the APEC Member Economies” wasapproved by APEC Member Economies in August 2005. The project is managed by theCenter for Research in Mathematics Education (CRME) in Khon Kaen University andthe Center for Research on International Cooperation in Educational Development(CRICED) in University of Tsukuba.
The project aims at: 1) to collaboratively develop innovations on teaching and learning
mathematics in different cultures of the APEC Member Economies, and 2) to develop
collaborative framework involving mathematics education among the APEC MemberEconomies. For these aims, the project focuses on the good practices in school classroom
and ways of professional development such as the Lesson Study in each Member
Economies. As the goal of project, we would like to publish the report (or book) withCD-roms including good teaching practices of participated economies and models ofgood practices which enable to use for the innovation of mathematics education in
APEC economies and the world.

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January 15: Educational Development Meeting for future planning,
January 16- January 20: APEC conference.

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CRICED, University of TsukubaIn order to achieve the goal of the project, we set two meetings within the four phases ofthe project:
Phase I, open symposium and closed workshop among key mathematics educators fromthe cosponsoring APEC Member Economies hosted by Center for Research on
International Cooperation for Educational Development, University of Tsukuba, Japan
will be organized in order to develop a research proposal and collaborative framework
for the implementation of innovation scheme in teaching and learning mathematics(January 2006).
Phase II, each cosponsoring APEC Economy will develop some examples based on theframework (February-March 2006).
Phase III, the International Symposium will be organized in order to share and reflecton each Economy’s research results and best practice. The Symposium will be hosted byCenter for Research in Mathematics Education (CRME), Faculty of Education, Khon
Kaen University, Thailand(May 2006).

Phase IV, The product for innovation of mathematics education will be developed. (July,2006)
The project itself is carried out by the people invited in the two meetings at Phase I andPhase III. At the same time, to open the ideas for good practices to everyone in eachsociety, the open symposium will be set in each meeting. We are expecting to invite samepeople in the both meetings. Depending on the restriction of the grant, we are expecting
to invite people from the following countries: USA, Japan, Korea, Australia, Chili,China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
At the same time, we have been making effort to invite more people from other APEC
economies. Participating of matheducators who have wishes to come to self fund will beacceptable.
The foci of the two meetings are to share the ideas of good practices from participantsand structuring, developing and reviewing the product with VTR for teacher education
and reform movement in Mathematics Education.
Ways of Publications
We develop our results through first and second meeting. At first meeting, participantspresent the discussion paper with some examples. At the end of first meeting, we would
like to set editorial board, the clear format and structure of final papers with VTR. At
second meeting in Thailand, participants are expecting to present papers with VTR
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revise papers with VTR.
We are planning to report following ways. Contributions in the first meeting of Tokyo
will be sited on the conference website and published from the Special Issues ofTsukuba Journal of Educational Study in Mathematics. Contributions in second
meeting of Khon Kaen will be sited on the conference website and published from theSpecial Issues of Journal of Center for Research in Mathematics Education. Finally, weare planning to publish the comprehensive, revised and accepted papers in two
meetings as a book with DVD or CD-roms.

Tentative Definition of Good Practice in Mathematics
We use the word of good practice in mathematics classroom as for the reform of eacheconomy’s mathematics education. It must not be the same depending on each economy.
The ideas of innovation included in good practices might be useful for other economies.
Depending on the result of TIMSS video tape study, we knew that there are differencesamong countries. There are strongly impressed people in the world by distributed VTR
tapes. But we know that the study itself did not aim to know what the good practice isand which country should be the model of the mathematics lesson. In each economy
there are a lot of researches in classroom and matheducators have been developing thegood practices. On the other hands, there are problems that they can not write what,
how and why good it is because there are no appropriate scientific ways to illustrate it
as understandable among different cultural societies.
This project focus on gathering good practices themselves from participants in eacheconomy and discuss what is good, why it is and how the teacher can develop such agood practice. If we discuss these points, we may know that how each good practice has
been done on different cultural setting and through the using these difference as ourmilers, we revalue our good practice from different perspective and get ideas and models
for innovation of our mathematics education and try to use the model to the reform.
Indeed, TIMSS video tape study enables us to know how useful to look at a short part ofthe lesson and discuss about analyzing of it by each of us such as why it is good and why
teacher did such a way. Through the meetings, we would like to talk about each goodpractice and define how we can express good practice. At the beginning of this project,
we tentatively define the good practice in mathematics with following conditions.
1) It is visible, recordable in the classroom and can be showed to other people.
2) It may be known as a good approach in an economy.
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3) There is a teacher who is well known by its approach.
4) It may be known as useful for the reform of mathematics education.
5) Many teachers may have their wish to do the same approach.
6) It may be taught in the teacher recurrent education.
7) Against its approach, on contrast, there are different/traditional approaches
based on different/traditional value.
These conditions are tentative as for imaging what it is. One of the goals of project is todevelop visible models of good practices which can be used for teacher educations with
DVD or CD-roms in each economies. Thus in the meetings, it is necessary to show andshare examples by VTRs.

Structure of First Meeting in Tokyo
The aims of Phase I, first meetings, are constructed with two components to share theideas for good (or best) practices, know the diversity meanings and approach in different
cultures and share the good ideas of ongoing professional development such as theLesson Study. First component of the meeting is open symposium based on key note
lectures and symposium for shearing ideas. Second component is closed workshop toshare the good practices in each economy, knowing why it is good and the developing
shared frameworks for second meetings in Thailand.
Each participant is expected to present their example of good practice with one hour.
Please look at Jan. 17 to 19 in the Schedule.

Schedule of APEC - Tsukuba meetings in Tokyo
Following are schedule of APEC – Tsukuba meetings in Tokyo. Titles of keynote lecturesand slots are tentative.
Jan, 14 SAT.

ArrivalJan, 15 SUN. Open Symposium:
Improving the Quality of Education for Developing Numeracy on Education for All:
Planning the International Collaboration for Future
Keynote lectures:“Mathematical Literacy for Living from OECD-PISA perspective”
Dr,.Jan de Lange, Director, Freudenthal Institute, Netherlands.
Chair, OECD-PISA technical committee

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CRICED, University of Tsukuba“Japanese Lesson Study for Developing Best PracticeProfessor Akihiko Takahashi, DePaul University,
Professor Shizumi Shimizu, University of Tsukuba
Panel for sharing the ideas of projects: planning international collaboration onNumeracy:“How have countries adopted the Lesson Study Approach for Educational
Development on their JICA Projects ? ”
General view of JICA Projects
Presentation from Countries on JICA Projects in Mathematics
South Africa, Egypt, Bangladesh, Indonesia, & Honduras (tentative)
Jan, 16 MON.

Open symposium“International Symposium on Innovative Teaching Mathematics through LessonStudy”
The Report from the past APEC ConferenceKey note lectures:“Professional Development through Lesson Study: A Lesson learned from US”
Dr. Catherine C. Lewis, Mills College USA
Lectures:“Comparative Study of Mathematics Classroom”
Professor Frederick Leung, Hong Kong
“Innovation of mathematics teaching with ICT”
Professor Yasuyuki Iijima, Aichi University of Education, Japan“Good Practice in Korea”
Professor Kyoungmee Park,講演１ 「授業の比較研究：その現状と課題」

Frederick Leung 香港

講演２「コンピュータを活用した数学授業の革新」

愛知教育大学講演３「韓国におけるよい授業と授業研究」

Park Kyungmee 韓国

講演４ 「オープンエンドアプローチと教員研修」

飯島康之

Maitree Inprasitha タイ

総合討議「よい授業を作るための研究と方法」

Jan. 17 TUE. Second day of APEC conference:

From Jan 17 to Jan 20. APEC workshop within invited participants“International workshop on Innovative Teaching Mathematics through Lesson Study”
Morning session;
School visit: Attached Elementary School, University of Tsukuba.

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Afternoon session;
Presentation from four economies*One hour presentation (40 minuets talk and 20 minuets discussion) by therepresentative from each economy. Each participant presents the example of goodpractice. For explaining what is good. It is necessary to focus on the problem should bereform. Discussion may be focused on the target of reform, explanation of hidden
cultural and sharing the ideas for the innovative approach including in it.
Jan. 18 WED. Third day of APEC conference
Morning session;
School visit: Attached Junior and Senior High School, University of Tsukuba.
Afternoon session;
Presentation from four economies
One hour presentation (40 minuets talk and 20 minuets discussion) by each economy.
Jan. 19 THU. Fourth day of APEC conference
Morning session;
Presentation from four economies
One hour presentation (40 minuets talk and 20 minuets discussion) by each economy.
Letter Afternoon;
Discussions about good practices and the formats for final products.
Short Evening Excursion.
Jan. 20 FRI. Fifth day of APEC conference
Morning session
Sharing ideas for Phase II and conference in Thailand“Key ideas for developing innovative teaching methods”(Conference will be closed at Noon)
Venues of APEC - Tsukuba Conference in Tokyo
The meetings will be held following places:
Jan 15-16: International Conference Auditorium
JICA INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
http://www.jica.go.jp/english/contact/ific/index.html
Jan 17-20: Attached Schools, University of Tsukuba at Tokyo

http://www.gakko.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp/map.jpgand Meeting Rooms:
JICA INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
We are planning to set your accommodation at the same building in Tokyo.

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Informations for Participants at First Meeting in Tokyo.
Format of the paper for Tokyo conference
Followings are the expecting contents of papers for first meeting:Description of Good Practices

Why we can say it as good practices.

What kind of reform is expected by such kinds of practices.
If necessary:please describe the setting in curriculum standard for explaining
why it is good.
please explain it by the technical term of mother language as well as
English meanings of it.
please explain it with relation to the world mathematics education
research movement.

Please write the paper with PME format by Adbe pdf or MS word.
8 pages including pictures of practice and references. You can see any papers of
PME on ERIC by the key words "Psychology of Mathematics Education".

You do not necessary to imagine the PME style research paper for reporting thegood lesson practice. If necessary, you may add many pages with the appendix
for describing details of the lesson.

Additionally, when your presentation at conference, please add VTR or the data file ofmovie within 10 minutes for introducing a good practice. It may be necessary that VTRis edited with captions in English. It is helpful if there is appendix which explains thegood lesson practice. The video more than 10 minutes is not appropriate to understandbecause English is the second language for most of participants.
Important Date
APEC office is in Singapore. Your travel fee will be send from APEC office and it takessome months. For sending you fee safely, we recommend you to set the travel ticket assoon as possible and keep track following date.
Oct. 31:

Fixing invited participants, schedule and asking necessary information forinvitation.
Nov. 5:

Setting the web site, sending posters and flyers. Getting necessary informationfrom invited participants such as airplane ticket for refunding.
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Dec. 31:Dead line of the paper for the conference: The papers should be submitted via

e-mail.
Jan. 6: The papers could be seen on the web site.
Jan. 14:Your Arrival. Please bring VTR.

Jan. 15 – 20: APEC-Tsukuba conference in Tokyo.
March 31: The papers on the conference are published through the special issue ofTsukuba Journal of Educational Study in Mathematics.
List of Correspondence of the Conference
ChairmanISODA, Masami
Associate Professor of Mathematics Education,
International Cooperation in Educational Development
University of Tsukuba, 305-8572 Japan
isoda@criced.tsukuba.ac.jp, Tel: +81-29-853-7286, Fax: +81-29-853-7288
Vice Chairman
SHIMIZU, Shizumi
Associate Professor of Mathematics Education,
Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Science
University of Tsukuba, 305-8572 Japan
Organizing CommitteeOKUBO Kazuyoshi, Hokkaido University of Education
SHIMIZU Yoshinori, University of Tsukuba
YOSHIDA Minoru, Shinsyu University
SAITO Noboru, Naruto University of Education
BABA Takuya, Hiroshima University
NINOMIYA Hiroyuki, Ahieme University
Secretary
CHINO, Kimiho
Resercher of Mathematics Education,
International Cooperation in Educational Development
University of Tsukuba, 305-8572 Japan
chinok@criced.tsukuba.ac.jp, Tel&Fax: +81-29-853-6573

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