Videos and digital stories generated through project activities that can be used in a variety of professional learning settings to prompt discussion about family engagement, mathematics learning and funds of knowledge.
These video cases are stand-alone video-based activities based on project activities that are accompanied by facilitation prompts. These can used to facilitate discussion or analysis in workshops, university courses with pre-service teachers, or in other professional learning settings. Themes that each case addresses are listed so that you can determine how you might use them. Use the links below to make a copy of the slides that contain the context, video clips, and facilitation notes for each topic. Subtitles are included when relevant. Please do not distribute or copy the videos- they are designed to be streamed through Vimeo.
🔗 Video Cases: Paper Flowers Slide Deck
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These video cases come from sessions in which caregivers and teachers engage in a math task that involves making flowers of tissue paper for celebrations, parties, or holidays. These slides contain two video clips that can be used, along with suggested prompts for facilitation.
🔗 Video Case: Paper Flowers vs. Ordering Fractions
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This video case compares two sessions in which caregivers and teachers engage in mathematics tasks together, with the first task centered on a funds-of-knowledge approach. These slides contain the two video clips along with suggested prompts for facilitation.
🔗 Video Case: Folklórico Skirts Slide Deck
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This video case comes from a session in which caregivers and teachers engage in a math task that involves experiences with folklórico skirts and the materials needed to design a skirt. These slides contain one video clip and suggested prompts for facilitation.
🔗 Video Cases: Beetles and Lizards
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This video case comes from sessions in which caregivers and children engage in an open-ended math task with multiple solutions. The central context of the task is a terrarium with insects. It involves a determined total number of insect legs and two insect types, beetles and lizards. These slides contain two video clips and suggested prompts for facilitation.
🔗 Video Cases: Parent and Teacher Reflection
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This video case comes from a conference for teachers where a teacher and parent participated on a panel together about their experiences in the project. These slides contain one video clip with suggested prompts for facilitation.
The digital stories are multi-media stories created by project participants to showcase an aspect of the project of their choosing.
The language used in the video is indicated below the title (i.e. Spanish/English).
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This digital story, created by a project participant (mother), illustrates how this mother supported her child to engage in an open-ended problem solving task. The central context of the task is a terrarium with insects. It involves a determined total number of insect legs and two insect types, beetles and lizards. The digital story contains video of the mother working with her child and the mother’s narration to explain how she was supporting her child.
This digital story, created by a project participant (teacher), describes how the teacher ended up creating a math task based on the work of the mother (making tamales).
Spanish and English
This digital story, featuring project participants (mother and teacher), includes a description of the collaboration, and reflection from the teacher and the mother about how they came to design a math task together, related to the mother’s skill in making tamales. The reflection portion comes from a presentation that the mother and teacher did together at a conference for teachers.
Spanish
This digital story, featuring project participants (mother and daughter), includes a reflection from the mother about how she connects with her daughter at home while cooking.