Mathematics Lesson Study Around the World: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

Introduction.- Lesson Study and Teaching Mathematics through Problem Solving: The Two Wheels of a Cart.- Mathematics Education Lesson Study in Japan from Historical, Community, Institutional and Development Assistance Perspectives.- Promoting and Implementing Lesson Study in Malaysia: Issue of Sustainability.- Enacting Curriculum Reform through Lesson Study in the Irish Post-primary Mathematics Classroom.- Fitting Lesson Study to the Portuguese Context.- Lesson Study in Chile: a Very Promising but still Uncertain Path.- Theorizing Lesson Study: Two Related Frameworks and two Danish Case-Studies.- Collaborative Lesson Research (CLR).- Mathematics Lesson Study Around the World: Conclusions and Looking Ahead.