Author(s): Rina Zazkis,Peter Liljedahl,Nathalie Sinclair
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 284
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Language: English
Date Published: 2012-12-26
Dimensions: 160.02 x 236.22 x 22.86mm
Publication City/Country: New York, NY, United States
Edition: 2013 ed.
Illustrations: 15 Tables, black and white; XII, 284 p.

Lesson play is a novel construct in research and teachers' professional development in mathematics education. Lesson play refers to a lesson or part of a lesson presented in dialogue form-inspired in part by Lakatos's evocative Proofs and Refutations-featuring imagined interactions between a teacher and her/his students. We have been using and refining our use of this tool for a number of years and using it in a variety of situations involving mathematics thinking and learning. The goal of this proposed book is to offer a comprehensive survey of the affordances of the tool, the results of our studies-particularly in the area of pre-service teacher education, and the reasons that the tool offers such productive possibilities for both researchers and teacher educators.