Childrens Understanding of Mathematics 11-16 [B2]We were encouraged to think about the importance of carefully selected questions to test understanding. This lead onto Task 3: Decimal Interviews. Within this task we are to conduct short interviews with Year 7 and Year 8 students, focussing on specific misconceptions with this topic and trying to find out why these misconceptions may occur.
Our TLC group have selected "Instrumental and Relational Understanding of Place Value" as a topic to examine. Our planning for this interview can be found in the Task 3 folder.
At the end of the lesson, Gabriel asked us for anonymous feedback about the lesson - might be useful to do to find what the students enjoy / appreciate / find annoying etc.
For the final part of today - UNION TIME! Having little idea about what separated the unions, I asked a few questions and after finding out that one of the unions had many male members that didn't think that women deserved equal pay, I was fairly sure that wasn't the union for me(!) so went for National Union of Teachers - we'll see what they're like!
