Facilitating Whole-Class Discussions: Helping Students Understand Each Other's Ideas was authored by a group from Japan. The authors were: Aki Murata, Takashi Morimoto, Hiroshi Tanaka, Shoji Aoyama, Takayuki Okamoto, and Tetsu Hirai.
The case study focuses on:
- Helping students to listen to and understand their peers' ideas.
- Holding space for productive mathematics discussions (and assessing student understanding).
The video is made up of four different lessons:
- Lesson 1 Tokyo, Japan, Urban private school, Grade 1, Multi-digit subtraction. (00:11 – 07:10)
- Lesson 2 Tokyo, Japan, Urban private school, Grade 6, Division of fraction. (07:10 – 19:52)
- Lesson 3 Yamaguchi-prefecture, Japan, Suburban private school, Grade 2, Determining equality and inequality in problem solving (use =, <, >signs). (19:52 – 34:58)
- Lesson 4 Tokyo, Japan, Urban private school, Grade 6, Problem solving with geometry, measurement, and number sense. (34:58 – 54:09)
The full case study is available in the attachments section. The comments on the video have been added by the OECD on behalf of the authors. The blue comments relate to the mathematics, the yellow comments to the teaching moves, and the brown comments are questions to consider. We invite you and your peers to add your own thoughts and comments on the video at different timestamps, or build on the ideas that are already there, in order to help foster a global exchange on mathematics teaching.
