ABSTRACT

This project focuses on the impact of student learning. The project taught multiplication in the fourth grade. The skills taught and learned include: place value method and using area models to multiply single digit by two digit numbers, writing numbers in expanded notation, properties of operations, rounding to the nearest place value, solving word problems, estimating, and expanded notation method of multiplication. The lessons were created and taught in a format that builds off the previous lessons. To analyze data and measure the impact on student learning a pre-test was given. Data collected from the pre-test scores includes the students’ scores, the class average, mean, range, and median. The post-test scores were also collected from the same students after the five lessons, along with those scores’ average, mean, range, and median. Side-by-side comparisons were made from these scores and show that there was an increase in every statistic, including some notable students receiving a score of zero on the pretest and a hundred percent on the post-test. While some students received the same score on both tests, the numbers do not always show the amount of growth and progress they make in their approach to problem solving. Every student had an increase in knowledge and proved to retain some of the content from the lessons. Even if they got the problem incorrect, their work showed they knew at least some of the steps to solving the problem. This demonstrates that the lessons had an impact on every student’s learning.