Student Work Analysis

Goals of the Experience

1. Notice features of "good" mathematical tasks
2. Examine student work for misconceptions/understandings
3. Describe teacher moves to advance conceptual understanding

Overview of the Experience

The Student Work Analysis Experience calls for teacher candidates to

1. Consider a Mathematical Task and associated student work
2. Identify misconceptions and understandings
3. Construct questions for further probing what is known
4. Describe a potential teacher move to advance understanding

This experience is designed to follow the Task Analysis experience. Thus, the experience begins by re-introducing the teacher candidate to a mathematical task already explored within the Task Analysis experience, but this time accompanied by student work. Just as in the Task Analysis experience, the teacher candidate responds to several questions from the Teachers Empowered to Advance Change in Mathematics Project (TEACH MATH) Teaching and Learning Lenses found in the Analyzing Video Cases Activity within the Classroom Practices Module about each piece of student work.

How to Use the Experience

If you would like to use this experience in a teacher education setting, please complete the Google Form on the "How to Access" page of this website

Once you have gained access to the experience there are two ways for you to use this experience:

1. Use in the current form. Here are directions for how to clone an experience for your own use.
2. Use in the current form with a different task. This experience is designed as a "template" experience where different mathematical tasks can be quickly inserted into the experience for teacher candidates to consider different mathematical tasks. To use a different task:
   • Clone the experience,
   • Select the Agenda for the experience and "Save as" to your own Resources
   • Open up the Agenda in the Plan Tool
   • Copy a link to your desired task (I put pdfs of tasks within a shared Google Drive folder)
   • Insert a link to your task on Slides 2 and 4 by highlighting the text and using the "http" button within the Plan tool.
   • Save the agenda
   • Open up the cloned experience
   • Replace the agenda with the agenda you just modified.