On October 10, 2017, I went in Mrs. Fetzer’s first-grade classroom. While in the class I observed a small group math lesson for approximately twenty minutes. At the beginning of the lesson the teacher introduced the lesson by asking the students about the previous day’s lesson. She was referring to the subject of adding and subtracting word problems the student’s completed the day before, but did not complete. The group began by starting with the next problem on the worksheet. The teacher asked the students to follow along with their finger as she read the word problem aloud. Once she finished reading the word the problem, the teacher asked, “What operation is the word problem asking us to preform?” The students would response with addition
