Multiplication And Division Essay

• During the beginning of my lesson, with the entire class, I had the students help another student through a multiplication and division problem. When the students were helping another student, I asked the students prompting questions that allowed them to help that student effectively. For example, during the multiplication problem, I asked the students, “Is this answer complete?” to which a student responded with, “no.” When the student responded to this, I asked then the simple question of why they believed that. The reason that this why is so important is that it caused this student to explain to the class and me that the reason that the answer was not completed was because it was not simplified. Since the student said it wasn’t simplified, …show more content…
Throughout the entirety of the lesson, there was little of relating the content to the students’ lives. There was one instance in the lesson that I was able to, but it was only with one group of students during the mini-lessons. During this portion, I had a multiplication problem that dealt with pies (which allowed it to be correlated to Thanksgiving that just occurred last week). I do believe that this needs more work however, because it only reached a portion of the students, instead of all of the students. I believe that if this was added all throughout the lesson, it would have allowed the students to feel more connected to the material, and in turn become more engaged throughout the …show more content…
Since my expectations were so high, it probably caused the students to feel defeated throughout the lesson. If the expectations would have been a little bit, not a lot since student expectations are supposed to be high, it would have allowed the students to feel less stressed about the material, and focused more on the content rather than finishing the work completely while making mistakes. I believe that teachers should have high expectations of their students, but if they are too high it causes nothing but frustration for both the teacher and the students. It would have made a difference in my student’s learning because it seemed like a good portion of them were upset that they were unable to successfully complete all of the