Student Work #1

For my first blog entry based on student work in the classroom, I chose to use a picture of a classroom chart. Although this isn't exactly a photo of a student's work, it shows the varying levels that the students in my classroom stand at in their math. Each week, my mentor teacher gives the students a timed multiplication test. This is because at 4th grade, the students still do not know their times tables. The students get 5 minutes to complete 100 multiplication questions.

As you can see there are some students who are still stuck on their 2's and one student who is as far as their 8's and they have been doing this task since the beginning of the year. The students are not allowed to move on to the next level until they have successfully completed all 100 questions correctly in the 5 minute span.

I thought that this was important to share so that my peers get an idea of the wide variety of levels that the students in my class are dealing with, with math. The numbers in the problems of their math are getting larger, therefore it is important that they learn the bases of the times table before they are able to succeed.