This term, I hope find out about the characteristics of mathematical thinking which my students are displaying. I hope to do this through using screencasts. At the end of last term, I was able to listen back to some really interesting screencasts which my students had created. Through these screencasts, I was able to clearly see gaps in student knowledge when it came to explaining their mathematical thinking. I was drawn to the fact that a lot of this information I was able to gather from the screencasts would not have been possible (or would have been much more difficult) when just looking at students' written responses to mathematical problems.
This term, I hope to use screencasts as another dimension for students to share their mathematical reasoning, and as an assessment tool to student learning. This may look like:
- Creating a rubric which students fill out after completing each screencast, in regards to their mathematical thinking/ explanations.
- Using screencasts to explain what they have already done to solve a mathematical problem.
- Using screencasts while they solve a mathematical problem.
- Exploring language used by students in their oral mathematical explanation.
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