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The “lesson plan” has been a staple of pre-service teacher education for many decades. In fact, almost everyone who has undergone a formal teacher education program has had to devise a lesson plan according to some prescribed format. Indeed, it is hard to imagine what teachers did before they used lesson plans! In this chapter, we describe the emergence of the lesson plan as we know it today and the educational assumptions it carries with it. We then provide an exemplar lesson plan in order to highlight both its strengths and weaknesses as a mode of planning to teach a mathematics lesson. As we will show in the next chapters, the “lesson play” offers a mode of planning that addresses these weaknesses of the lesson plan.
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Zazkis, R., Sinclair, N., Liljedahl, P. (2013). Planning for Instruction. In: Lesson Play in Mathematics Education:. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3549-5_1
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