3.1: Explore the Content

In this module, you will see how an experienced TTP practitioner plans and teaches a series of TTP lessons. Specifically, you will discover how the different instructional supports for a TTP lesson come together to build students’ understanding of a particular...

3.2: Board Organization

3.2 Board Organization You can examine a sample board plan (below) for a lesson on the area of the L-shaped figure. It is not taken from Dr. Takahashi’s lesson series, but it may be useful in thinking through the student responses to expect and how they might be used...

3.3: Teacher Questioning

3.3 Teacher Questioning Now that we have studied the mathematical content and reviewed the instructional plan, let’s view video segments from the series of three lessons “Can You Find the Area?” taught by Dr. Akihiko Takahashi. The video can help us consider teacher...

3.4: Neriage (“Kneading”) Discussion

3.4 Neriage (“Kneading”) Discussion The next video segment (which immediately follows the prior segment of the lesson) shows the final portion of the lesson, in which students look back on what they learned that day and summarize key mathematical points. The neriage,...

3.5: Reflective Student Journals

3.5: Reflective Student Journals Watching segments from the video “Can You Find the Area?”(see Video Segment 4 and Video Segment 6) may also spark your thinking about how to build students’ journal writing habits. At the end of each of three consecutive lessons, Dr....
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