This extract is from a grade 4 mathematics classroom with 50 students. The topic is computing proper, improper, and mixed fractions. In the extract, a mathematics teacher clarifies the question 4/7 × 3/8 after one student fails to answer it, and a second student struggles for 2 min and...
The second school was involved in iteration 4, where 25 fifth-grade primary school students participated. Both schools had parental consent for the students involved. According to teacher inter- views, the students in both schools predominantly come from middle-low-income families. While almost all...