Reciprocal Teaching in Mathematics.

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Reciprocal Teaching in Mathematics.

• Improving mathematical literacy and comprehension

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Presenters
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Sunshine College - Victoria
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Sunshine College - Victoria

• Government Secondary school located within the
  Western Metropolitan Region of Victoria
• 1000 students (male female)
• Multicultural (gt51 different nationalities)
• Some students with intellectual disabilities
  language disorders
• 39 students in the Lighthouse Program
• 15 deaf students

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The issues

• Problem solving is a large component of
  mathematics.
• Many students struggle to understand written
  maths problems.
• Jimmy has 4 less marbles than Patrice who has
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A Brief History

• In 2007, Sunshine College began a school-wide
  literacy program.
• One of the successful components of the literacy
  program is Reciprocal Teaching.
• Developed our own Reciprocal Teaching methodology
  to address language rich maths problems.

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Reciprocal Teaching

• The purpose of Reciprocal Teaching is to
  facilitate a group effort between teacher and
  students as well as among students in the task of
  bringing meaning to the text.
• (Department of Education and Early Childhood
  Development, 2009)

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Four main areas to Reciprocal Teaching in
Mathematics
The Big Question
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Predict Look at the problem write down what you
think it is about.
Find the BIG question What are you being asked to
work out?
Clarify Words you dont know List all the
helpful information from the problem. List
everything that you need to know to solve the
problem.
Step 4 Turn over to... Solve
Summarise Complete any 3 of these
sentences Im not too sure about this
because.... Next time I wouldnt....... I
helped my group by... My answer makes sense
because... One thing I have learned is... A
better strategy I would use next time is...... I
know that my answer makes sense
because........
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Summarise
Complete any 3 of these sentences Im not too
sure about this because.... Next time I
wouldnt....... I helped my group by... A
better strategy I would use next time
is...... One thing I have learned is... I
know that my answer makes sense because..
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Student Work
Ebony
Nick
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Student work without Reciprocal Teaching
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Reciprocal Teaching

• Not just about building academic vocabulary.
• About developing genuine comprehension.
• Teachers think that once they teach the
  vocabulary the problem of comprehension is solved.

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Comprehension Vs Vocabulary

• The number of the children at the movies was 5
  slash than twong the number of adults.

• The number of the weans at the movies was 5 more
  than twice the number of flaps

• Decoding

• Academic Vocabulary

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So how does it look in the classroom?
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Without Reciprocal Teaching
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Year 9
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Our observations...

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Benefits
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Sunshine College
www.sunshine.vic.gov.au/numeracy