Reflection

On Thursday morning during the first period in grade 3, the students were having a math
lesson. The lesson was about distributive property. This lesson from multiplication and
division strand. I taught the lesson in the class at the student’s tables. In this lesson, I was
trying to teach the students how to take parts and distribute them to multiply. First, I activate
the student's prior knowledge by giving them some examples of numbers to find the two
numbers they can add them to get that number. At the beginning of the lesson, the teacher
displayed a multiplication equation and show the students how to break up the number and
distribute the numbers in the bracket and find the answer for each bracket and then add them
together to find the final answer. The students were listening carefully and try to participate
with me to find the two number they can add them together to get that number, but they took
a long time to know the answer for multiplying after I distribute the numbers in the bracket.
Then, I provide some examples on the board and I asked the students to work in three
students from each group to solve the problem in one minute and then hold up their boards to
show me their answers. The students were so good and be able to participate and work
together to write the answers and correct for each other before they show me their answers.
Then, I distribute a small piece of paper with a one multiplication equation to apply the
distribute property. The students were engaging and try to solve the problem and some of
them were preferring to work together. This strategy kept the students engage and quite while
I’m going around the groups and explain the activities for the different levels. Later on, I
asked the students to clean up their tables and prepare their self for the closing. In the closing
I displayed some three different multiplication and use the distributive property. The students
work as three and they had one minute to write their answers on their boards and then hold up
their boards to show me their answer. The students have been working fast and most of them
got their answers correct. In this lesson I met my teaching goal. I saw most of the students
abled to find the two addition numbers easily and distribute them in the bracket. The problem
that students faced in this lesson was distribute the right numbers in the bracket. To solve this
problem, I stick on the table the steps of how distribute the numbers with some arrows that
showed specifically. To enhance the lesson in the future, I could give the students a circle,
and show them that circle is going to be used to cover the number after they found the two
numbers that when you add them is going to give you the same number. This strategy going
to help the students to distribute the correct numbers in the bracket.