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9/7/2017
Lesson 1

Summary of student progress (data analysis, Were lesson objectives met?

what went well)
The students were very engaged in the
activity that we did today. We played a game,
which in my opinion, always makes learning
more meaningful to the students. The
students worked well together in their
groups.
Yes the objectives were met for this lesson!
The students had no issues with finding
multiples. While playing the game, students
were able to identify the product of two
factors. The concept itself is very easy, and
they have been multiplying numbers for a
few years now. The only thing new for the
students was learning the new terminology.

Instructional decisions (were students Include in tomorrow’s lesson:

engaged; how will you remediate difficulties In the next lesson, I will want to review what
or problems from this lesson?) factors and multiples are, and how we can
The students were very engaged in this get from one to the other.
lesson. There were no problems from this
lesson. Some students needed more
prompting than others, so I will continue to
review the new terminology with the
students.

9/12/2017
Lesson 2

Summary of student progress (data analysis, Were lesson objectives met?

what went well) Most of the students were able to meet the
The previous day, while I was gone, the objectives. A couple of students still
students created rectangle posters. The point struggled with the idea of square numbers.
of this for them to see factor pairs using the
dimensions of rectangles. As a class, we
answered multiple questions about what
these numbers and posters tell us. Most of
the students seemed to realty grasp this
concept.
 Instructional decisions (were students Include in tomorrow’s lesson:
engaged; how will you remediate difficulties In tomorrow’s lesson, I will review the
or problems from this lesson?) concept of square numbers, and will do a
While the students were working on their couple of review questions with the students.
assignment for the next day, I walked around
to the students who struggled with the
square number concept, to check and make
sure that the assignment was going okay, and
that they were understanding how to
complete the problems.

9/13/2017
Lesson 3

Summary of student progress (data analysis, Were lesson objectives met?

what went well) All the objectives were met based on the
I reviewed the major concepts that we have class average. However, there are still a
covered in the first investigation. They couple of students who are struggling these
included factors, prime numbers, composite concepts.
numbers, multiples, and square numbers.
The students were engaged in the review,
and seemed to better understand these
concepts! The students then took a quiz over
these things. The class average on the quiz
was 9.7/12, which is an 81%.
Instructional decisions (were students Include in tomorrow’s lesson:
engaged; how will you remediate difficulties I will specifically review these concepts with
or problems from this lesson?) the students in tomorrow’s lesson. However,
Based on the results from the quiz, students these concepts do not go away, so we will be
were engaged in the review, because most of constantly reviewing this material and
them did very well. However, the students terminology throughout the rest of the unit.
who are still struggling, will need some extra
work with these concepts. I suspect some of
the problem is that they are unsure of what
the directions are telling them to do. Once
they are told what certain words mean (an
example would be, find the multiples of 6),
they know the process and are able to find
the answer.
 9/14/2017 and 9/15/2017
Lesson 4

Summary of student progress (data analysis, Were lesson objectives met?

what went well) The lesson objectives were met for this
I was very nervous for this lesson, as I was lesson! The students were able to do the GCF
unsure of how well the students would grasp and LCM problems on their own after doing
these ideas. This was the first time I the examples as a class.
introduced greatest common factor and least
common multiple. I made sure that I went
very slow and gave a lot of examples! The
students were very engaged, and they really
seemed to understand these ideas.

Instructional decisions (were students Include in tomorrow’s lesson:

engaged; how will you remediate difficulties I will review GCF and LCM, and I will really
or problems from this lesson?) emphasize the difference between the two.
For some students, it took a couple practice Again, we will be using these concepts for the
problems for them to grasp exactly what to rest of the unit, so we will be constantly
do. However, once we practiced those reviewing.
problems, I felt like most students were
doing great! I could tell right away that there
was going to be some confusion with the
names of these concepts. Some students
were mixing them up. They would see the
words greatest common factor, but would do
the process for least common multiple.

9/19/2017
Lesson 5

Summary of student progress (data analysis, Were lesson objectives met?

what went well) The majority of the class met the class
Today’s lesson went okay! However, I felt like objectives! There were a few students who
I should have done some of my content in a will need some extra practice with GCF and
different order! To start the class out, I had LCM.
the students complete an “Entrance Ticket”
that reviewed GCF and LCM. The class
average was a 10/12, which is an 83.3%. I
was very pleased with these results!
 Instructional decisions (were students Include in tomorrow’s lesson:
engaged; how will you remediate difficulties In tomorrow’s lesson, I want to spend a few
or problems from this lesson?) extra minutes focusing on GCF.
As part of my lesson, I had students working
with a partner on problem 2.3 out of the
book, which was a story problem using GCF. I
should have started this question with them,
but instead I had them go right to working
with their partner. I ended up remediating by
bringing the class back as a whole, and
helping them with the first question.

9/20/2017
Lesson 6

Summary of student progress (data analysis, Were lesson objectives met?

what went well) Yes, the lesson objectives for this lesson
I reviewed the major concepts that we have were met by the class!
covered in the second investigation. The
students seemed to be doing great with the
review! We covered LCM, GCF, and The
Product Game. Then the students took a
partner quiz. The class average on the quiz
was a 13.7/15, which is a 91.3%. I am very
happy with the progress the students made!
Instructional decisions (were students Include in tomorrow’s lesson:
engaged; how will you remediate difficulties In tomorrow’s lesson, we will discuss the
or problems from this lesson?) questions from the reflection activity.
The students were very engaged in this
partner quiz. With the help of my
cooperating teacher, we paired the students
up based on their level! I felt that this was
necessary, so that nobody felt intimidated or
had an unfair advantage. When the quiz was
over, students participated in a reflection
activity that really made them think about
these concepts, and how we can use them in
different ways.
 9/21/2017
Lesson 7

Summary of student progress (data analysis, Were lesson objectives met?

what went well) The lesson objectives were met for this
In today’s lesson, we started the next lesson. However, I had to give some students
“investigation” in the unit. We started off a lot of prompting to get to that point.
reviewing GCF and LCM, and then we went
right into notes for this section. I gave the
students notes about the different divisibility
rules. Students then worked with a partner to
play “The Product Puzzle.” The students were
engaged in this activity, but I felt that some
of them struggled with actually finding factor
strings that equaled 840. I had to guide some
of them to the right numbers.
Instructional decisions (were students Include in tomorrow’s lesson:
engaged; how will you remediate difficulties In the next lesson, the students will take
or problems from this lesson?) notes on prime factorization. The students
When it came time to discuss the factor will review factorization then!
strings as a class, I decided to spend a little
more time focusing on the strategies that
students could have used to find the
different factor strings.

9/27/2017
Lesson 8

Summary of student progress (data analysis, Were lesson objectives met?

what went well) Yes, the objectives were met! Most of the
In today’s lesson, we reviewed prime students were able to complete the practice
factorization, greatest common factor, and worksheet with no problem!
least common multiple. I showed the
students a new way to find GCF and LCM.
The students really like the “upside down
division” method that I showed them to find
GCF. I also showed them how to use prime
factorization to find LCM. Most of the
students understood this concept, but they
all said they preferred one of the other
methods.
 Instructional decisions (were students Include in tomorrow’s lesson:
engaged; how will you remediate difficulties In tomorrow’s lesson we will discuss and
or problems from this lesson?) review these methods again.
A few of the students really struggled with
using prime factorization to find the least
common multiple. For these students, I
changed their assignment so that they could
use any method they wanted to solve the
problems.

10/3/2017
Lesson 9

Summary of student progress (data analysis, Were lesson objectives met?

what went well) Yes, the lesson objectives were met for this
In today’s lesson, we began talking about the lesson!
distributive property. I did a modeling activity
with the students to help them better
understand this concept. Once we were done
with that we completed the rest of the lab as
a whole class. I think the students really
understood the concept!
Instructional decisions (were students Include in tomorrow’s lesson:
engaged; how will you remediate difficulties In the next lesson, we will discuss this idea
or problems from this lesson?) further so that the students get a little bit
There were a couple times throughout the more review.
lab where I had to stop myself, because I
could tell that I was moving too quickly for
some of the students! So to fix this, I just
backed up a little bit and went through the
information a little bit slower.
 10/5/2017
Lesson 10

Summary of student progress (data analysis, Were lesson objectives met?

what went well) Yes, the lesson objectives were met! I really
In today’s lesson, I introduced order of wanted them to be successful with the
operations. This can be a tricky concept for practice problems, and most of the students
some students. Generally, the students were!
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briefly cover this in 5 grade. However, last
year it was not covered, so this was a
completely new topic for them! I decided to
make a foldable to help them organize the
notes for this lesson. The students
understood the basic process and steps!
Instructional decisions (were students Include in tomorrow’s lesson:
engaged; how will you remediate difficulties In tomorrow’s lesson, we will review the
or problems from this lesson?) steps in the order of operations, and then we
While the students really seemed to will practice more problems!
understand the process itself, some of them
struggled when it came time to actually put
this idea to use! Students would simply
forget some of the steps, which would then
make their answers incorrect.
10/11/2017
Lesson 11

Summary of student progress (data analysis, Were lesson objectives met?

what went well) Yes, the lesson objectives were met! I was
In this lesson, we took all of the major pleasantly surprised with how well the
concepts that we had studied, and used them students understood these story problems!
to solve story problems. We walked through
each question together as a class! I was very
pleased with how well it went. Sometimes I
had to steer the students in the right
direction, but eventually we got there.
Instructional decisions (were students Include in tomorrow’s lesson:
engaged; how will you remediate difficulties This was the final lesson in the unit.
or problems from this lesson?)
The students were engaged throughout this
lesson. If students had any questions, they
made sure to ask. Overall, this was a great
wrap-up for the unit!