Video Reflection #2

This video starts out with the teacher asking the students what they know about multiplication and division. The teacher allows the students to talk to each other and then asks them what ideas they have about the two operations. I think that it is a good idea for the students to talk out the ideas that they have with their peers, however, the students may not have been ready to do this just yet. I think the teacher could have taken a little more control in guiding the conversations at this point in the lesson.
Next, the teacher asks the students to complete some mental math problems. She then has the students discuss with their peers again about how they solved the problems. During this time of sharing strategies, many misconceptions were shown. Students seemed to get confused between different operations and were unsure of which to use when. The teacher discusses the different ways which students solved the problems. The teacher shows show the students could use drawings to enhance their answers. When the teacher asks the students to write about what they will remember about Charlie's way they need a lot of guidance to come up with something to write down.
During the faculty debriefing the teacher talks about how the students all said that division is related to subtraction. I also found this to be very interesting because that is not what I would have thought to say. I agree that the students must have heard that somewhere or simply thought that since multiplication is similar to addition, division must be similar to subtraction.
Overall I found the video interesting. I think that there could have been more guidance and structure in the lesson, but I also like the large emphasis on their individual exploration.