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Challenges
to emergency preparedness
for mathematics:
Understanding our
tasks
18 January 2012
Patsy Wang-Iverson
[email protected]
 This project can help us prepare
our children for the future.
 It illustrates the importance/value
of mathematical thinking.
Day 1: 14 February 2012
Katsumi SHIRAHATA:
 Self-help and public help
When disaster occurs, children must
make independent decision
Moving from saving children in
disaster to children saving themselves
and others in disaster.
What kinds of lessons?
 Business as usual?
1. Skills development
2. Doing as teacher directs
or
Problem posing by students?
Example: 16 Feb. Isoda lesson
BUT…
No proposed lessons have followed this
example.
Problem Posing by Students
ISMUNANDAR: Teacher Professional Development for
Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in Education in
ASEAN
BUT—Teachers can’t learn/know everything in the 21st
century.
BENJALUG NAMFA: 1) Integrated curriculum; 2)
Changing teaching practice
MAITREE INPRASITHA: Lesson study and open
approach
Problem Posing by Students
• SHIZUMI SHIMIZU: Eventually, it
is necessary that opportunities are
given so that students can act
independently and autonomously.
• AND…
• Pose and solve their own problems.
14 Feb. Panel Discussion
“Education about disaster prevention is
not something you can do overnight; it is
a long-term effort.”
BUT…
We need to develop disaster reading
materials and lesson plans, engage in
lesson study, and report back by 7
September!
Possible Learning Content
A Knowledge of why and how Earthquake and
Tsunmai happen
B Models related to Earthquake and Tsunmai
(mathematics and physical model)
C Prevention and damage control (Good Building
and Logistic arrangement)
D After the disaster (Relief Work and its
arrangement)
Problem Posing using Prior Knowledge
Earthquake
Tsunami
1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 Modeling /solving problem
Area Ratio
Yes
Yes
decimals
Not
Yes
tables
Etc.
graphics
Big number
Volumen
Similarity
BEFORE
IMMEDIATE MID-TERM LONG-TERM
PRIOR
KNOWLEDGE
EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
DAMAGE
REDUCTION
Prediction
RETURN TO
NORMALCY
Rescue
Removal
Protection
Prevention?
RECONCEPTUALIZATION
Relief
Preparedness
P
Research
Education
Q
Research
Education
Drill
SCIENCE
Relocation
Reallocation
Restoration
Rehabilitation
R
Research
Education/
Training
Drill
KM
SYSTEMS THINKING
Reconstruction
Research
S
Education
KM
SKILLS
Scientist Presentations
Makoto Matsubara: Strong velocity gradient
related to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake using
travel time data from active seismicity detected
by the dense seismic network.
Gaku Shoji: Damage of infrastructures due
to the 2011 Earthquake off the Pacific
Coast of Tohoku
Masanori Shishikura: Importance of studying
past tsunami by geological field survey
Scientist Presentations
 Bring real science to education
 Help students and teachers understand
what scientists do
 Serve as models for students’ future
aspirations
Full STEAM* Ahead!
Science
Technology
Engineering
Art
Mathematics
APEC Lesson Study
Developing students who are
agents of change, not objects of
change.
E-Textbook
 Mild improvement of boring
textbook?
 Inclusion of animation, movie?
ORIGAMI
 Using origami to build portable
temporary shelters

th
6
International Meeting on
Origami in Science,
Mathematics and Education
(6OSME)
March,
2014
Kobe, Japan