Classroom Discussion: Seeing Math Discourse in Action

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Level: K-6th

Accessibility: Purchasable DVDs ($149)

Type of video: Excerpts from 12 classroom lessons that involve small group and whole class discussions

Content domains: Counting and Cardinality, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Number and Operations in Base Ten, Measurement and Data, The Number System

Description:

• Videos illustrate particular “talk moves” and combinations of “talk moves”.

• Videos afford opportunity to view students doing mathematics as they engage in problems, as the students interact with other students, and as the students interact with teachers..

• Videos demonstrate instructional practices consistent with the mathematics teaching practices (NCTM, 2014). These practices include but are not limited to: posing purposeful questions, eliciting and using evidence of student thinking, supporting students’ productive struggle, and orchestrating mathematical discourse.

 

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PBS Mathline

www.pbslearningmedia.org,

 

Level:  Grade 6-8

Accessibility: Free after you have created an account and password.

Type of video:  Video of classroom mathematics lesson

• Grades 6-8: Expressions and Equations; The Number System; Ratios and Proportional Reasoning; Statistics and Probability; Functions; Geometry

Description:

• A number of the lessons follow a launch-explore-summarize format.  The teacher first introduces or sets-up a class task, activity, or experiment.  Then the teacher provides students time to engage in the mathematical task/activity/experiment.  The teacher then concludes with a discussion or lecture about the overarching mathematical idea(s) in the lesson. 

• Many of the lessons in the videos include both small group and whole class discussions in which students are working on a mathematical task, activity, or experiment that requires a significant portion of the lesson’s time.  

• Some of the teachers in the videos demonstrate instructional practices and mathematical tasks that have the form but not the function of those advocated by the NCTM Standards.

• The videos include teacher and student reflections on teaching and learning; teacher voice over and interpretation of some of the events in the classroom videos; edited, full lengths segments of the classroom lesson; segments of video focusing on individual and groups of students engaging in mathematical tasks

 

 

 

Teaching Channel 

www.teachingchannel.org

 

Level: K-8  (also 9-12, see below)

Access: Free, after creating a username and password

Type of video: Excerpts of classroom lessons, which include whole class, small group, and teacher reflection. 

Content domains:

• K-8 CCSS-M Content Standards: Counting and Cardinality; Operations and Algebraic Thinking; Number and Operations in Base 10; Number and Operations - Fractions; Measurement and Data; Geometry; The Number System; Expressions and Equations; Functions; Statistics and Probability

Description:

• There seems to be two major foci for the videos - mathematics teaching practices (e.g. “giving efficient directions,” “think time and collaborative learning,” and “formative assessment using U-P-S strategy”) and mathematics lesson ideas (e.g. “collaborate to solve inequalities” and “statistical analysis to rank baseball players.”)

• The content of the videos varies. Many of the videos include excerpts of classroom lessons that follow a launch-explore-summarize structure.The launch involves the teacher setting up the activity while interacting with the whole class.The excerpts from the explore portion focuses on small groups of students collaborating on the mathematical task.The excerpts of the summary involve a whole class discussion about the students’ work on the mathematical activity.All of these videos include a voice-over commentary in which the teacher(s) reflects on pedagogical decisions and situates the decisions in the broader scope and sequence of the students’ mathematical learning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

TIMSS Videos (Videos from Third International Math & Science Study)

http://www.timssvideo.com/videos/Mathematics 

 

Level: 8th

Access: Free, after creating a username and password

Type of video: (Individual task based interview, small group, whole
 class, teacher reflection): Whole class/Whole lesson videos, video generally follows the teacher, but does include some small groups and individual students interacting with the teacher.

Content domains: In the USA:

• Graphing Linear Equations

• Writing variable expressions

• Exponent rules

• Secants and tangents

• Interior angles of a polygon

• See "Learn More & Discuss" for other countries' content

Description:

• The videos are examples of uninterrupted and unedited classroom lessons.They show a variety of teaching structures and approaches, as well as a variety of content domains.

• The videos are also very useful to show cultural differences in instruction between countries.

• The videos are not idealized versions of classrooms.As a result, they are less models of “ideal” teaching, but rather opportunities to analyze classroom teaching.

 

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