Marquetta Strait March 25, 2013 EDUC: 422: Teaching Math to Children Mrs.

Wright

Assessing My Students during My Lesson

Pre-assessment: While teaching my students, I wanted to assess their prior knowledge. As my anticipatory set and pre-assessment, I questioned whether the students preferred a penny a day for thirty days or $100,000. The students all responded that they would take the $100,000. I then questioned their reasoning. Many of the students decided they would take the $100,000, purchase clothes or save for college. After the students finished giving their reasoning, I introduced Demis One Grain of Rice.

Assessment: During the lesson, I first had the students estimate how much they believed the main character would collect. I then had the students to work in their groups and determine the amount of rice that the little girl collected in thirty days. While working, many students were able to find number patterns. The rice chart was the students assessment and was also used as a visual. The students placed rice on the chart to show how much the rice had grown overtime.

Post-Assessment: I then returned to the PowerPoint presentation. Once again, I posed the question on whether the students preferred a penny a day for thirty days or $100,000. The students quickly said they preferred the penny. On the last slide, the students read the amount that they would receive if they had chosen the penny, which was $5,368,709.12.

One Grain of Rice

Name:________________________________________ _
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Date:____________ _
Day 5 Total After 5 Days

grains of rice Day 6

grains of rice Day 7 Day 8

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grains of rice

grains of rice Day 10

Total After 10 Days

512

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Total After 15 Days

grains of rice Day 16

grains of rice Day 17

grains of rice Day 18 131, 072

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Total After 20 Days

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Total After 30 Days

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