Today I taught a math lesson on factor rainbows, factor strings, and prime factorization. I taught the lesson out of the Everyday Mathematics textbook and it went pretty well. The students seemed engaged in the lesson and seemed to understand all the concepts and how the concepts were interconnected. Today was the first day that the students were seated in groups of three or four, so I utilized the set up of the classroom and had the students do group work. Doing group work threw many students for a loop, but once they figured out how to work with their group members they were able to be successful with the group task I presented to them with. Struggling to know how to begin in group work is a case of the students being pushed out of their regular routine and some flourished while others struggled.
I think the important thing for me to come away from this lesson with is how the students responded to being put in groups for the first time this year and how they were or were not able to overcome their differences with their group members. Seeing how students worked together gave me an insight into how to regroup students in the future to allow students to be the most successful they possibly can be.
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