Design a 5 minute interview about place value questions. Consider the example of Marilyn Burns' interviews with first grade students about their understanding of 2-digit numbers.
Listen to me talk about some options and things to consider.
Just the specifics:
- If you are interviewing first grade students, it would be appropriate to use the same sort of questions Marilyn Burns used in the sample interviews with Cena or Jonathan
- If you are interviewing kindergarten students, you should restrict your questions only to teen numbers (11-19).
- If you are interviewing second grade students, you may want to ask the same first grade questions, or you may want to ask about the meaning of particular digits and numbers in 2-digit addition or subtraction problems (this is most relevant if children have been doing 2-digit addition or subtraction in class)
- You should provide manipulatives that are groupable but not grouped if you are working with kindergarten or first grade students (Unifix cubes work fine for this). Manipulatives are optional for second grade interviews.
- Think about a way you can present the questions that is similar to, but not exactly the same as the number work they do regularly in school.
- Ask about and listen to student thinking about how they did what they did.
Conduct the interview with at 5 students and report on it.