I haven't seen student work this past week, due to half days and the students not having school. This is a picture of the next lesson the students are going to be learning about, measuring with cubes. The students have been working with cubes for the past month and learning how to create patterns with the different colors. For my student interview, I am going to ask a few students,"How can we use cubes to measure a pencil?" It is going to be interesting to see if they can figure out how to use the cubes in order to measure the pencil I give them. I am going to use a student with a low math ability, a student with a medium math ability, and a student with a high math ability. I want to make sure that I have a broad range of responses, so I will be able to see what I need to focus on when teaching this lesson to the whole class.
Learning how to measure is a key component in mathematics and will be a very important concept for the students to understand. Using the cubes as a starting point is a great idea because the students are already familiar with the cubes and how to use them. I think the hardest concepts that these students will have is understanding what measuring something means and understanding that items have a length. Students will need to understand that there are many different forms of measurement, not just using cubes. It will be a good idea to incorporate using string or rulers to measure something when it is evident that students understand how to measure using cubes.
I am excited to see how the students will do with this new concept :)
This is a good task, but your analysis has to be more thorough:
ReplyDeleteWhat is the big idea of this task? What is its objective?
What are some anticipated ways you think students might approach this task?
What might these different anticipated approaches tell you about these students are thinking about the big idea in question?