Designing and adapting tasks in lesson planning: a critical process of Lesson Study

ZDM - Mathematics Education

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 411-423

  Fujii, Toshiakira ^a  

^a TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lesson planning; Lesson study; Structured problem solving; Task design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976407798     PISSN: 18639690     EISSN: 18639704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11858-016-0770-3     Document Type: Article

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