Japanese Lesson Study

Tuesday, July 17

We discussed possible lesson openers (³hooks²)

We watched a 4th grade Japanese lesson on understanding the scale of large place values.

We discussed the level of student we are targeting with our lesson‹a precalculus class‹getting ready to learn logarithms. We talked extensively about the main ideas we wanted our lesson to address.

Art Mabbott visited and told us about the interent resources for PCMI

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