Announcement of the online program for SEAMEO School Network (free of charge)
Online Program by CRICED, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Title:

Problem Solving Approach for Upper Primary Level (Grades 4-6)
‘Teaching Mathematics to Develop Mathematical Thinking as Higher Order Thinking: How
do you teach? Why?’ Part V

Provided by
CRICED, University of Tsukuba, Japan: Affiliate Member of SEAMEO
Lectured by
Masami Isoda, Prof/PhD, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Gan Teck Hock (Malaysia) & Teh Kim Hong (ASMEP, Malaysia)

With the support and contribution of (tentative)
Sumardyono & Uki Rahmawati (SEAMEO-QITEP in Mathematics, Indonesia), Maitree Inprasitha, (KhonKaen University, Thailand), Nguyen Chi Thanh (Vietnamin National University), Aida Yap (University of thePhilippines-NISMED, Philippines), Raimundo Olfos & Soledad Estrella (Pontificia Universidad Católica deValparaíso, Chile), Marcela Santillán (Universidad Pedagogica National, Mexico) and Yuriko YamamotoBaldin (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brasil)

Course Summary
On OECD Education for 2030 (2019), Student Agency means students who ‘learned howto learnʼ. For this issue, the objective of this online lecture is to establish Teacher Agency
that develops students who learn mathematics by and for themselves by using task
sequence to develop mathematical thinking. In the past three courses (Part I to Part III), we
focused on terminologies for establishment of appropriate teaching sequence which explain
why we teach them at the primary school level.

The courses were illustrated by thecurriculum and learning standards SEA-BES: CCRLS, which provides basic ideas ofmathematics curriculum; and the task sequences for Problem Solving Approaches(Teaching Mathematics through Problem Solving).
The new course, Part V, focuses on Problem Solving
Approachbyusing

theguidebookforteachers’

professional development of Upper Primary Level (Grades4 to 6) children. It continues from Part IV for Lower Primary
Level (Grades 1 to 3) and extends to Part VI for Lower
Secondary Level (Grade 7 to 9).
The guidebook for this Part V course for Upper
Primary Level which consisted with materials to develop
curriculum knowledge for teaching isshown on the right:

Course Content, Registration and Certifications
It is a free program on SEAMEO priority areas #5 for Revitalizing Teacher Education and#7 for ʻAdopting 21st Century Curriculum. CRICED, University of Tsukuba, Japan, provides
the certifications to participants at the end of the course.
Each online lecture will be provided on a consecutive sequence based on the course
roadmap. Participants cannot skip any lesson because each lesson uses ideas which werealready discussed. At the end of each lesson, participants need to do a short questionnairefor knowing how the lesson worked. Only the participants that answer the questionnaire will
receive the URL for the next lecture. The feedback from participants is used for evaluation of
the program and attendance confirmation, but not as an evaluation of the participants.
Course Roadmap for Part V in 2023
TopicTitle of Lesson (tentative)

SchedulePart VUpperPrimaryLevel

1. Open Approach & Inquiry-based

July 29th(Grades 4 to 5)

3. Dialectic Approach & Analysing

Investigation to Learn New Ideas
2. Problem Solving Approach and Task

August 5thSequencing
Misconception of Ideas

August12th

4. How to Utilize Various Teaching

AugustApproaches

19th

All lessons will begin on Saturday evening from 19:00 (Japan time GMT+9) through alive streaming via YouTube. Each lesson will be approximately 75 minutes long which include
assessment.

Registration form (Deadline June 29th, 2023): https://forms.gle/oooXzWse1jypCuZX8Contact
Masami Isoda, Prof/PhD. Director of CRICED, University of Tsukuba, 305-8572, Japan.
Inquiry form for the course: https://forms.gle/4RNRfexJgYwpRJEdA

Further Information
https://www.criced.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/seameo.html
Past Courses
https://www.criced.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/online-contents.html
https://www.jv-campus.org/en/user/category/education/

Reference
Isoda, M., Gan, T. H. & Teh, K. H. (2023). Mathematics challenges for classroom
practices at the upper primary level. Tokyo: CRICED, University of Tsukuba.