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How does this lesson fit with what you know about child development
(developmentally appropriate practice and learning progressions)?
E. ASSESSING LEARNING
I will use the game of Jeopardy to assess the students. I will have them write
down the problems and work them out as individuals and then they will need
to collaborate as a team to decide on the answer that they will to submit as
the final answer. I will collect the work and review to make sure that the
students understand how to solve the problems. As we are playing the game
I will ask students to explain how they solved the problem and if someone else
got a different answer I will ask them how they solved the problem and we
will see what went wrong and where so that they can learn from their
mistakes.
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Assessment Tool
What documentation will you have
for each student?
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specifically, that indicate each
student has achieved your
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U5 Different processes or
strategies can be used to
solve addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division
problems.
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PROCEDURE
Include a DETAILED description of each step, including how you will get the
students attention, your introduction of the activity, the directions you will give
students, the questions you will ask, and appropriate closure. Write exactly what
you will SAY and DO. Think of this as a script.
BEFORE:
When class starts we will talk about the 4 basic operations, what each of them
mean, and different strategies that can be used to solve the problems. Once we
have reviewed each of the operations I will explain that we will be playing several
different games to work on building fluency and quick recall of basic facts. I will
model each of the games so that the students will understand that they will be
doing at each of the centers. I will let them know what they will be doing at
Jeopardy but I will not be previewing any of the questions for them. I will have
blank paper at each station that they will need to record their strategies and any
problems that they work out on paper. If they are doing mental math then I would
like for them to explain the process that they used so that I can understand what
they are doing. There will also be a tray at each of the centers for them to turn in
the papers used, to make sure that all get handed in.
DURING: Implementation The students will be working in groups of 4 or 5 (there
will be 3 groups of 5 and 2 groups of 4). During the time that they spend at each
center they will need to be able to bounce ideas and strategies off of each other
if they have questions, as I will not help them but want to be able to observe
what they know about the content and what they do and do not understand. I
will ask students questions such as How did you know to multiply or divide?, What
did you try first?, How are these similar/different?. I noticed that you changed your
answer. Why? What are you thinking? to clarify or gather more knowledge that
they have about the problems that they are solving to see where the issues or
misconceptions still lie. I will provide the appropriate support that the students
need without providing them with the way to solve the problem but instead asking
them what they have tried or suggesting that they try a different strategy or even
talk with a group member to see if they can figure out a way to solve the problem.
For students that finish at any of the station early I will ask them to provide
additional strategies to solve various problems from the center. If they are using
playing cards to work on basic facts for addition and subtraction I would ask them
to make it more difficult by laying down 4 cards and then laying down 3 cards
and adding or subtracting the numbers, for example, 6,718-839=5,879. If the
students finish early at Dont Get Zapped, I will ask for them to place all of the
sticks back into the container and start the game over until time is up. At Ping
Pong Math I will ask that the students try to find a different way to get the ping
pong ball into the muffin tin to make it a little more difficult. I will monitor all the
students at each of the centers and will record Data on a Data recording sheet to
keep track of the different strategies that the students use and any comments of
information that is necessary to gage where the students are in the learning
progression and levels of representation. I will also collect any papers that the
students use to gather data off of those as well.
I will use a Data recording sheet to keep track of the different strategies that
students were using during each station to use during the discussion after they
have completed the centers.
AFTER: During the discussion after the centers I will talk with the class about various
strategies that they used that may help other students to better be able to
understand the concepts and work more fluently. For this I will ask different
students to choose a strategy that they used and explain the process to the rest of
the students. We will also have a class discussion in which the students will be able
to talk about the strategies that they find the most useful and that they think may
help the other students. During this time the students need to be respectful of
each other and listen as these ideas may help them to work through problems
more fluently. During the discussion it does not matter if the student gets the right
answer it is the strategy that they tried and once they have shared their ideas the
other students will have the opportunity to respond with respectful comments and
help them to see where they may have made their mistakes and work together to
accurately solve the problem. After the discussion I will highlight the connections
between the strategies that were used or different mathematical ideas. I will also
review the different types of strategies that can be used such as partial quotient,
partial product, repeated addition. (In this section I will let the students choose the
strategies that they want to talk about based on what they used. If everyone tried
the same strategy then I may mention a couple that were not use that may be
useful to them.)
I will use the knowledge that they have been covering this material since the
beginning of the year to help them become more fluent in the content. I will be
using a data record sheet to track comments and strategies that the students use
during the different centers to guide my discussion after the centers are over. I will
ask a student to explain to me how they would solve an addition or subtraction
problem using both the standard algorithm and also using estimation or mental
math. I would then ask the students to explain how they would solve a
multiplication problem using the standard algorithm and then partial product or
the box method. I will then ask them to do the same thing for division using the
standard algorithm, partial quotient, repeated subtraction, or equal grouping. I
want to see what strategies that the students come up with to use and then with
the teachers permission I will provide them with other ways that can help them
solve the problem. After discussing each type of problem and the different
strategies I will ask the students if they can tell me what is similar and different
about each of the strategies to help them make the connection that even though
we can solve the problem in different ways we can come up with the same
answer.
H. DIFFERENTIATION
Describe how you plan to meet the needs of all students in your classroom with
varied interests and readiness levels by completing ONE of the six boxes below for
each day. You may choose the same box for each day. Use the learning
progressions to support your decisions. Include a specific differentiation plan for
each day.
This connects to your During Phase Actions: providing support and extensions.
Content
Process
Interest
Readiness
Product
I.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG WITH THESE LESSONS AND WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT IT?
Think about this specifically for THESE lesson plans. This CANNOT include fire drills,
interruptions due to announcements, weather, or other emergencies.
I may forget to take the decks of cards with me to school on this day and if that
happens I will have the students create addition, subtraction, multiplication and
division problems and ask each other the problems. I will also create some problems
and place them at each center and have the students answer these problems as
well. The students may not understand different strategies that can be used to solve
the problems. I will have examples of the problems worked out using the various
strategies in case the want to see how to use them.
Dont
Get
Zapped
Ping
Pong Addition/Subtraction Multiplication
Muffin
Review (Playing
Dominoes
Tin
Cards)
War
Math
Jeopardy