Clips A and B are from a lesson using Two-way functions. They may help you prepare to use the resource or reflect on classroom practice.
These students kindly agreed to let us film them sharing their initial thoughts as they worked on this task. Our aim in selecting these classroom video clips is to offer an opportunity to see the different ways mathematical thinking is revealed, as it plays out, rather than as a final and polished piece of work.
After viewing each clip
Spend a minute replaying the clip in your mind. Try to reconstruct significant parts of the episode. If watching with a colleague, compare your accounts of what you saw — watch the clip again if necessary to reach agreement.
Consider the prompts relating to student thinking and the teacher’s role.
Try to relate these episodes to your own classroom experience.
Students working on the task
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Clip A
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Clip B
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What does each clip reveal about these students’ understanding of functions?
As a teacher, what choices might you make in a similar situation in your own classroom?
Teacher reflections
| We showed Clip B to a group of teachers from different schools. Here they describe what they noticed and how it relates to their own classroom experience. |
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Thoughts about group work
In these lessons, group work and collaboration were managed in the way suggested in the Outline section. In these clips, teachers and students share their thoughts about this approach.
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We are very grateful to staff and students at our partner schools for allowing us to film students working on Two-way functions and the subsequent discussion.
We are grateful to Julian Marshall for directing the filming, selecting and editing some video clips and for his guidance on the use of classroom video.
