For this worksheet, I would like to know how it fits in the math standards. I could find this out by consulting with my mentor teacher, or I could also look at the common core standards. I would also like to know what type of support is recommended or needed in order for the students to be able to complete this. I know this varies from student to student, but it was interesting to me that none of the students could solve the first two problems. I would like to know what should be taught leading up to this lesson and what support others would give the students during the completion of the worksheet. I could figure this out by consulting other mentor teachers, talking with peers, and talking with MSU professors. I feel that the big issue with those problems is that they are word problems, so I would love to watch a teacher introduce how to work with word problems. I feel that the students in my class did not receive enough support prior to this worksheet or during it and that is why they had such a difficult time. I also would like to know how the students learn how to do long division. I only ever see them practice division, like the "lesson quiz" so I would like to see how my MT goes about teaching the students. The students struggle a great deal with remainders, so I wonder how other teachers go about teaching this. I would like to broaden my knowledge on effective ways to teach the concept of remainders and I feel that by talking with my peers about their experiences in their classrooms and looking around on the internet would help me.
The problem itself is actually pretty complex (not a simple algorithm), so it's not surprising that students struggled. It seems like this would be a good problem to have students try to solve (perhaps collaboratively), and then to share their responses as a class. As a teacher, it would then be your job to try to manage the discussion, linking the different approaches together and asking students to justify their claims. What would not be productive would be to pose this problem, have students struggle on it individually, then reveal the answer and move on.
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