Here is the DMIC lesson I used today when Martha observed.
Again I was nervous about doing it, but she was great in discussing each step with me along the way.
These are new things I picked up on:
Less of children putting hands up and more of me calling on them.
*More of me asking them to repeat what each other has been explaining.
*More of me asking them to justify their thinking.
*Taking the lesson where it needs to go as the needs arise (it turned out that most of them had forgotten how to calculate a unit fraction of an amount to then find the greater fraction, but the context for this learning made it all the richer!)
*Looking at where to take this next in terms of the needs that arose today - creating our own real-life problem, doing the same survey with OUR class and then calculating the fractions... they were nowhere near looking at the percentage situation as the fractions need focus for now..
I really enjoyed this lesson and am buzzing with new excitement for DMIC Maths!
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