Video: Number Operations: Multiplication & Division

For the teacher's opening I like how she extended it to introduce the idea of equal groups, even though I do not think the students really understood or fully grasped this idea. I was getting stressed out through parts with students not using the right words. This has to do with the Precision standard and it really shows in the video how the students can use the wrong words and this will cause confusion. I wish the teacher didn't start with the connection between addition and multiplication even though there is a connection. It's hard..because by comparing the two really helps make multiplication seem easier but causes confusion. There were lots of challenges to get the students to understand what operation to use, especially for the last problem. The teacher does an excellent job asking guiding questions which helped some students. It's hard because we don't know how much they have been taught about multiplication and division or what their class has worked with. I would like to say maybe in an introductory division class have the students work with the ideas of grouping right away. I do believe the teacher was a math coach and not with them all the time but this video helped show me the importance of how ideas are introduced.  

The student debriefing was hard, I feel like the lesson still ended with students being confused and I didn't like that. The student's really struggled with the fact that Maria had more than Wayne and that her money needed to be higher than his. I would have liked to have had more time to have the teacher explain this and the grouping. I did like all the discussion the students had with the coach but it was so hard because one student might get it, hear the wrong one, and then it seemed like back to square one.  I liked hearing what the visitors saw and worked with, with the students. We didn't get to see all of this so it was nice to hear what they saw and see what problems were prevalent. Again we can talk about the use of vocabulary, or the lack really of vocabulary. That idea really overwhelms me because we have to start from square one and break down any misconceptions the students might have with the vocabulary. The teachers have to fix work that has been engraved in the students. 

I really liked the video because it shows us what to expect, it brought a lot of ideas I wouldn't have thought about to my attention. I do feel like the information could be more organized but when asking the students for so much input it's hard to keep it organized because they had many different ideas. I love seeing the discussions at all ages because it is something we as teachers need to use. It is a good gauge to see where students are, what they understand and don't understand. To me I took away the importance of proper vocabulary and the importance of introducing division as equal groups because this concept can help the students grasp the concept.