Lindsey Carpenter Student Work

Today students were assigned to work independently to finish this page in their math book. The page contained new and some review math problems that students have already seen. During this time I walked around and observed students and how they would approach these problems. When I was looking over this students particular work I noticed his approach to solving problem number two was interesting. The student wrote the amount that each of the piece of money was worth.

The objective of this problem was for students to figure out how much the picture of change is worth and then add up all of the coins and circle the correct answer. The goal of this problem is because students had recently finished the unit on money and this problem was a review for students. However, the questions big goal was to get students to recognize the picture of coins and then figure out how much its worth and then add up each coin. It is getting student thinking about the value of money and the amount that is assigned to it.  

The students could have used a number of different methods to solve this problem they could have drawn out circles for the amount that each coin represent. For example, for a dime students may draw ten circles. At the end of drawing all these circles students will then count up all of the circles to get the total.

Based on the first grade skills that I have seen in the classroom this far, I can conclude that *Dan thought through and solved this problem in a way that was grade appropriate. The goal for this problem was to get students to independently think about coins and their worth. Students needed to identify the what coin was in the picture, figure out how much it was worth and then add up all of there worth's.