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This photo is a picture of one of the students in my classroom's worksheet from this past week. She is one of the higher students in the classroom, and although the worksheets had yet to be corrected, I went over this one myself to see how well she had done. She got a majority of the questions right except for a few division problems at the top. Although the directions ask the students to make or draw a model to solve, I don't think that the students do so. So the questions that I would ask would be:
1) Did the students have the opportunity to make or draw models?
2) If so, with what and where?
3) Because only the answers are given and no work is shown, I'm curious as to what this student's train of thought was when completing this worksheet. Was it difficult for her?
To answers these questions, I think that the best source would be to ask the student as well as the mentor teacher. I'm not sure what the exact instructions were that the teacher gave the students, and I could talk to the student to see how well she followed those instructions.
Another thing to think about is the numbers that are represented in the opening division problems...What do each of these problems represent? How are they different from one another, in light of the different numbers that are chosen? And what does this mean in terms of what we might conclude about the student's understanding of division?
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