post 13

I was assigned to do my fieldwork in a second grade class. The are working on subtracting double digit numbers with and without regrouping. I gave a pre-test to all of the students in the class and there were two or three who did not miss any or just missed one question. This surprised me because I was not expecting any of them to get more than a few correct since they had not learned how to do some of the types of problems that were on the pre-test in class yet. This made me see a  real need for differentiation in this class. I think that those three who got all the correct answers need something harder to work on. They don’t seem to be bored in class but they need to be more challenged. There are also quite a few students who missed more than half of the questions and need to have some remediation in math. It was interesting to see how differentiation might help these students learn. I am not sure how I would implement the differentiation because the school and grade teams all use the same books for math and they stick to the program but I can see the need for differentiation in the classroom after watching these students do math.