Affective_McStay08



1. **Grade Level: 2 Content of Lesson:** Affective Assessment on students' attitude about math 2. **Objectives:** To understand how the students in my cooperating classroom feel about math 3. **Assessment Criteria and Instrument:** Students will answer questions (using a happy face, ok face, or sad face) indicating how they feel about certain mathematical concepts they have explored in their classroom. I will assess their attitudes using an Affective Assessment. 4. **Analysis of the data:** For the most part, students seem to enjoy the subject of math. Most of them noted that they feel most comfortable doing addition and subtraction. They also appear to enjoy working in cooperative groups. Fractions seem to be an area of difficulty among the students sampled. 5. **Samples of Student Work:** High Performer

Low Performer

6. **Recommendations for future instruction for the entire class:** 7. **Recommendations for future instruction for the students sampled:**
 * Make use of cooperative groups during math
 * Spend more time working on fractions. Rather than relying only on the textbook, introduce students to manipulatives that will help them explore different ways to represent fractions.
 * Since students are comfortable with addition and subtraction, provide further exposure to the addition of three digit numbers so they will be better prepared for third grade.
 * **Brian (high performer):** This student does not enjoy math, so it would be my recommendation to introduce him to more enjoyable ways to learn mathematics. Instead of the rote learning he is accustomed to, this student should be shown how to use manipulatives that make math fun. There are a number of games this student can play in cooperative groups that will help him with geometry and elementary algebra. Student should be reminded that math is everywhere around him: counting money, telling time, mileage in a car, etc. When he realizes that math exists everywhere, it may make it more meaningful for him.
 * **Alex (low performer):** This student enjoys working in groups, so whenever possible, he should be placed in a cooperative group during math time. He may better learn with others around him. This student does not seem to enjoy fractions, so he should be shown ways to represent and explore fractions using manipulatives.

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