CLASS Description
Quality of Feedback
Encouragement and Affirmation– The teacher praises the children’s math stories.
Scaffolding– The teacher gives instructions and guides the children in engaging in the activity.
Providing Information– The teacher gives specific feedback and clarification when students share their math stories with her.
Language Modeling
Open-Ended Questions– “The teacher asks, Who wants to tell me about their math story?”
Frequent Conversation– The teacher engages in many back and forth exchanges with the children.
Concept Development
Integration– The teacher connects specific subtraction strategies to the children’s work.
Connections to the Real World– This activity requires students to connect a math concept (subtraction or addition) and create a story problem with realistic elements.
Creating– The children are creating their own math story problems with playful materials.
Age: 5K
Play Type: Playful Instruction
Content: Math
Context: Center
District: Four Lakes
Video Descripton
In this example of Playful Instruction, a 5K teacher, Ms. N, directs children’s math activity. Ms. N provides math manipulatives and tools for children to practice making math equations as they create math stories. Children choose a theme card (insects/flowers, frogs/lily pads, or fish/fishbowls), place math manipulatives on the theme card, make a math story, count the manipulatives on the card, and write a math equation.