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Anju Lata answered on Jul 07 2020
Running Head: Analysis and Report
Analysis and Report 11
ASSESSMENT 1
ANALYSIS & REPORT
Australian Curriculum: Mathematics
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Introduction
The paper presents the analysis and report about a series of lessons conducted with a range of classes. It identifies specific concepts being taught in two of the lessons and links them to the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics (Australian Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority (ACARA, n.d.) content descriptors or elaborations. The analysis identifies three aspects of best practice that are common to the different lessons and justifies them. Finally, the report includes a lesson outline for one of the recorded lessons using a lesson outline template.
The Concept
In lesson A, the teacher tells the students how they can use numbers to represent the chocolate bar through whole numbers, fractions or decimals and lastly how to represent it in words through a story. The teachers collect data from the students through pre-assessment activities and listen out what the students need rather than focusing on the content of the curriculum. They keep students engaged through different group activities for each age group. The teacher encourages the students to use concrete materials like visuals of chocolate bar, copying it on a sheet of paper which the students can easily cut down into different parts and share it evenly between their group. They do a lot of hands-on activities with the children. The teacher gives the opportunity to each student to tell his own story about the chocolate bar. The teacher gives off a certain number of paper cutting strips to the students and asks them open-ended questions on how many they will be left with, if they give off certain strips to the friend. Such questions initiate cognitive thinking in the students to solve the problem.
According to the Australian Curriculum (Mathematics) for the age group of 3/4 years, the lessons about Fractions and Decimal Numbers include modeling and representing the unit fractions including 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 and 1/5 and their multiples to complete a whole (ACMNA058). It includes folding and partitioning a sheet of paper, and comparing the parts with their size. It also involves representing the fractions with help of paper cuttings and partitioning the areas, lengths, and collections to create halves, thirds and quarters. For example, folding and cutting the same sized sheet of paper to represent different unit fractions and comparing them.
The proficiency standard ‘Understanding’ is depicted in mathematics teaching, for the content of Algebra and fractions. It reinforces the importance of working with the content mathematically and illustrates how the content is explored.
Lesson goals achieved through this lesson involves connecting the number representations with sequences of numbers, to partition and combine them, to communicate them using a particular language and recognize the symmetry.
In lesson B, the teacher tells the students to use a formula to make a palindrome sequence. The students used to test the different numbers to identify whether they make palindromes. They worked in groups to find out how many steps it takes to turn the numbers into palindromes. They used different color representation to identify different stages of converting the numbers to palindromes like Already Palindromes, One step Palindrome, Two-step Palindrome etc.
As per the Australian Curriculum, the proficiency of ‘Problem Solving’ is reinforced in this lesson to work with the content mathematically, to describe how the content is developed and explored. At this level, the problem solving involves formulating and modeling the given situation, through planning and discovering the number pattern to reach a conclusion. The teacher caters to a diverse range of abilities of students in the class by making the examples as real as possible and spending a lot of time in hands-on activities. Teacher has to use open-ended questions to support effective teaching and learning.
The content Descriptors for Year 3/4 includes for this lesson involves the use of Pattern and Algebra. The students describe, continue and construct the number patterns which results from performing addition and subtraction (ACMNA060). The students identify the rules and formulas for designing number pattern; they describe the rule for creating the pattern and then work to create it individually. There is a lot of...