In this clip, Margie Trainer, Stacy Emory, and Fran Dickinson share their take on re-engagement as Fran introduces us to the original task and the lesson at hand. Fran shares what he saw as he reviewed student work on the "Buttons" task. In this preparation, he identified two learners' descriptions of the 11th stage to use during the re-engagement lesson. Fran describes the general flow of the lesson as planned. You’ll also hear a description of the “what’s my rule?” number talk. Margie and Fran then discuss why this number talk was chosen. Margie asks Fran about his use of the think-pair-share strategy in his efforts to foster discourse in the classroom. Fran, Stacy, and Margie discuss the ways in which learners may struggle with different representations of the pattern in the "Buttons" task. Also, they discuss how the learners are developing their ability to generalize the pattern with algebraic representation.

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Lesson Planning

Introduction

Problem 1

Problem 2

Closure

Student Debrief

Faculty Debrief

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Related MARS Task:

• Buttons Task Packet