Tasks, communication and mathematical reasoning: teachers’ professional learning in lesson studies

We analyze the learning about, tasks, communication and ways to promote students’ mathematical reasoning processes made by a grade 5 teacher in a lesson study. Data were collected through an individual and a focus group interview as well as the teacher’s final reflection. The lesson study, combining...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Quaresma, Marisa, Ponte, João Pedro da
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2016
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repository:Zetetiké (Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8646540
Online Access:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/zetetike/article/view/8646540
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Professional development
Lesson study
Communication
Reasoning
Desenvolvimento profissional
Estudo de aula
Comunicação
Raciocínio
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Summary:We analyze the learning about, tasks, communication and ways to promote students’ mathematical reasoning processes made by a grade 5 teacher in a lesson study. Data were collected through an individual and a focus group interview as well as the teacher’s final reflection. The lesson study, combining knowledge from research with teachers’ experiential knowledge, carried out in a collaborative context and exploiting situations of reflection on practice regarding students’ communication and reasoning (sometimes unexpected), represented a favorable context for this teacher professional development, notably on issues relating to communication, tasks and reasoning processes in the teaching and learning of mathematics.