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 Lower Primary Level (Grades 1-3)
‘Teaching Mathematics to Develop Mathematical Thinking as Higher Order Thinking:
How do you teach? Why?’ Part IV

Provided by
CRICED, University of Tsukuba, Japan: Affiliate Member of SEAMEO
Lectured by
Masami Isoda, Prof/PhD, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Teh Kim Hong (ASMEP, Malaysia) & Gan Teck Hock (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
sequences 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 IV, focuses on various Problem
Solving Approaches by using the guidebook for teachers’
professional development of Lower Primary Level (Grades1 to 3). Consecutively, it continues as Part V for Upper
Primary Level (Grades 4 to 6) and as Part VI for Junior
Secondary Level (Grades 7 to 9).
The guidebook for this Part IV course for Lower
Primary Level which consisted of 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 ʻRevitalizing Teacher Educationʼ and#7 for ʻAdopting 21st Century Curriculumʼ. 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 lessons worked. Only participants that answer the questionnaire will
receive the URL for the next lecture. The feedback from participants is used for evaluation ofthe program and attendance confirmation, but not as an evaluation of the participants.
Course Roadmap for Parts IV in 2023
TopicTitle of Lesson (tentative)

SchedulePart IV

1. Open Approach & Inquiry-based

July 1st -Lower
Primary
Level

Investigation to Learn New Ideas(Grades 1 to 3)

3. Dialectic Approach & Analysing

2. Problem Solving Approach and Task

July 8th

Sequencing
July 15th

Misconception of Ideas
4. How to Utilize Various Teaching

July 22nd

Approaches
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/9B51RDHXEjM39Rh56
Contact
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
Teh, K. H., Isoda, M., & Gan, T. H. (2021). Mathematics challenges for classroom
practices at the lower primary level. Penang, Malaysia: SEAMEO-RECSAM