Classroom Innovations through Lesson Study is an APEC EDNET (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Education Network) project that aims to improve the quality of education in the area of mathematics. This book includes challenges of lesson study in the world, for example, in Japan and Singapore. Lesson study is one of the best ways to improve the quality of teaching. It is the model approach for improvement of teacher education in the world, and mathematics is the most appropriate subject for sharing the results of lesson study. This book focuses on teacher education and mathematics education, and on curriculum implementation and reforms.

Classroom Innovations through Lesson Study is an APEC EDNET (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Education Network) project that aims to improve the quality of education in the area of mathematics. This book includes challenges of lesson study in the world, for example, in Japan and Singapore. Lesson study is one of the best ways to improve the quality of teaching. It is the model approach for improvement of teacher education in the world, and mathematics is the most appropriate subject for sharing the results of lesson study. This book focuses on teacher education and mathematics education, and on curriculum implementation and reforms.

Origami5 continues in the excellent tradition of its four previous incarnations, documenting work presented at an extraordinary series of meetings that explored the connections between origami, mathematics, science, technology, education, and other academic fields.

The fifth such meeting, 5OSME (July 13-17, 2010, Singapore Management University) followed the precedent previous meetings to explore the interdisciplinary connections between origami and the real world. This book begins with a section on origami history, art, and design. It is followed by sections on origami in education and origami science, engineering, and technology, and culminates with a section on origami mathematics-the pairing that inspired the original meeting.

Within this one volume, you will find a broad selection of historical information, artists' descriptions of their processes, various perspectives and approaches to the use of origami in education, mathematical tools for origami design, applications of folding in engineering and technology, as well as original and cutting-edge research on the mathematical underpinnings of origami.