APEC - Tsukuba International Conference VIII:
13-16 Feb. 2014.
Innovation of Mathematics Education
through Lesson Study
-Challenges to Mathematics Education to
Emergency Preparedness Education
<Learning from Experience, Science of
Disasters, and Preparing for the Future (III)
focusing on Fire and Volcanic Eruption
Maitree Inprasitha, Auijit Pattanajak, Narumol Inprasitha
Center for Research in Mathematics Education (CRME),
Khon Kaen University.
A Forest Fire
A forest fire along road 108 between Mae Sariang and Khun Yuam, in Mae Hong Son province. It
was one of the many fires that day. This is done mainly to trigger the growth of the Astraeus
odoratus (English: false earthstar; Thai script: เห็ดเผาะ; Thai het pho) fungus which fetches a high
price on the Thai market. The fires completely denude the undergrowth and affects the wildlife but
most of the trees are not really affected.
Introduction
• The world has the crisis which the
situation changes dramatically as violence
and natural disasters that occurred around
in the world.
• Disasters that occur in Thailand has many
types such as tropical cyclones, earthquake,
floods, thunderstorm, land slides, storm beat
the shore surges, fires, and droughts.
Introduction (2)
• Each time a disaster occurs; the damage is enormous
to human, animals, plants and objects. Government
and people look for many resources to help for
reconstruction and restoration of such damage.
• The fire in Thailand has occurred in every years.
There are many problems: 1) human are has lit
wildfire for stimulating to sprout of many kind fungi or
bamboo shoots because it come to be foods for them.
2) natural wildfire are rarely happen because there are
less of trees. 3) some people lit the fire carelessly for
preparing to plant.
Introduction (3)
• The government have many projects to
cope with the fire such as Fire Control
Station, Forest Protection Unit, National
Park, Forest Fire Control Training and
Development Center, etc..
• The projects to cope with the wildfire in
educational institutes such as schools,
universities are not concern.
• The problems of fire have been severe and
we must look carefully.
Introduction (4)
• From the keynote session for the Project
Targets, the role of Education in Natural
Disasters and Thailand experience of Fire:
policies maker point of view.
• We learned about how people can prepare
and prompt for themselves in disasters.
Issues for concern:
1) For school students should have activities
about fire basic knowledge, how to
survival and use tools for stop fire, or
first aid for fire injuries.
2) For university students should have
activities about prepare and prompt for
themselves in disasters.
Program of Education
• Grade 1-3: Meaning, Attribute or Style and
Violence of Disaster.
• Grade 4-6 : take care of themselves and
those close.
• Grade 7-9: consider information carefully and
self preparing for the immediate situation.
• Grade 10-12: help oneself and social
conscience and not be a burden to others.
Focusing on grade 1-6
• Mathematics teaching grade 1-6: wanted
- math activities about fire
- authentic tasks
- authentic phenomenon
• Interpolate information of disaster in word
problem, problem situation, mathematical
task, mathematical activities.
Mathematical Tasks in
classroom around the world
• A mathematical task has been
defined as a set of problems or a
single complex problem that focuses
students’ attention on a particular
mathematical idea (Stein,Grover, &
Henningsen, 1996; Yoshinori et. al,
2010: p. 3).
Focusing on The Unit of Lesson
• In stage level, students understand
information of disaster, they have
know-how to manipulate themselves,
preparing prevention, analyze
information by themselves then
evaluate to probable situation and
then assist others before and after
disaster.
Example 1
A forest fire along road 108 between Mae Sariang and Khun Yuam, in Mae Hong Son province. It
was one of the many fires that day. This is done mainly to trigger the growth of the Astraeus
odoratus (English: false earthstar; Thai script: เห็ดเผาะ; Thai het pho) fungus which fetches a high
price on the Thai market. The fires completely denude the undergrowth and affects the wildlife but
most of the trees are not really affected.
Example 2
Wind blows trees along the road in the Phu Hin Rong Kla Park,
power pole toppled over and broken. Sparking a grass fire, two sides
wide. Fire officials mobilize forces for 1 hour.)
Example 3
• Students from Thongchai Wittaya School in
Lampang Province, participated in The Project
for Professional Development of Mathematics
Teachers through Lesson Study and Open
Approach organized by Center for Research in
Mathematics Education, Faculty of Education ,
Khon Kaen University. They used activity that
cooperate both students and teachers.
Project of Learning Fire
Project of Learning Fire (2)
Project of Learning Fire (3)
Model for conducted the study
• From the model, there is a group of people
consist of the teacher who teach in Grade 1 to
Grade 3, principal, school coordinator,
supervisor, graduate students, mathematics
internship students, coach, expert.
• Open class, it consist of the group of the people
as above and invited students’ parent, the
school committees and the office of regional
area come to join these activity.
Objectives
• 1. To enhance power of team lesson study and
open approach teachers for criticizing from
experts, principal, supervisor and participatory
observer.
• 2. To construct mathematics activity base on
problem solving using lesson study and open
approach.
• 3.To create mathematical task and developing
the tasks using open approach.
Open Forum at the end of each
Semester
Plan
Implement
Revise
See
Do
Reflect
Publication
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References
Hiebert, J.,& Wearne, D.(1993). Instructional
tasks, classroom discourse, and students’
learning in second-grade arithematic, American
Educational Research Journal. 30. 393-425.
Acknowledgement
Commission on Higher
Education
Center for Research in Mathematics
Education
Graduate School, Khon Kaen
University
Centre of Excellence in
Mathematics11
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This research is (partially) supported by the Center
of Excellence in Mathematics, the Commission on
Higher Education, Thailand
Center of Excellence in Mathematics,
CHE, Si Ayuttaya Rd.,
Bangkok 10400, Thailand
• APEC - Tsukuba International Conference III:
• Innovation of Mathematics Education through Lesson Study
-Challenges to Mathematics Education to Emergency
Preparedness Education <Learning from Experience,
Science of Disasters, and Preparing for the Future (III)
focusing on Fire and Volcanic Eruption.
February 13 - 16, 2014.
Venue: Tokyo, Japan.
Date:
• Developing the tasks for the mathematical
problem solving on the any situation of Fire
and Volcanic Eruption for each school level.
Next Meeting
• Innovation of Mathematics Education through
Lesson Study -Challenges to Mathematics
Education to Emergency Preparedness
Education <Learning from Experience, Science
of Disasters, and Preparing for the Future (III)
focusing on Fire and Volcanic Eruption.
• Faculty of Education Khon Kaen University.
• 8-13 September 2014.