AP: Scenario 2
Scenario: Franca solving a story problem with the students. Country: Italy Grade (student age): Year 4 (age 9-10) Contributed by: Marco Bardelli, University of Padova, Italy Context – public primary school, national curriculum The Italian National Curriculum emphasizes the development of students’ number sense through realistic mathematical problems where the estimate of numbers can be performed. The mental calculation has taken great importance and the students should manage the control of their reasoning. Moreover the National Curriculum underlines that students should be able to solve mathematical problems with different strategies. Franca is teaching volume measures to her pupils. She has already explained the litre and its submultiples as a measure of capacity. In this lesson she wants to show her pupils how to use mental calculation in a story problem…