The What would you do next? videos are videos of students thinking aloud as they work on mathematical tasks. These videos provide you with an opportunity to reflect on what the student thinking reveals about their understanding and what instructional decisions you would make based on that thinking. The original prompt, teacher guide, and student work are available for download. There is no one, correct answer to the question "What would you do next?". Take this opportunity to brainstorm teaching strategies with your colleagues in order to prepare for the variety of strategies, misconceptions, and representations that students will create and encounter during instruction.  If you have a chance to try this task with students, let us know how it went by adding a reflection to the discussion. Emily: In this video, Emily, a grade 3 student is asked to determine how much of the following figure is shaded.  She begins thinking about eights and then transitions to sixths.  The initial prompt that Emily was presented with is shown here.

What fraction(s) could you see from the shaded portion(s) of the big rectangle?



[Student Work] [Student Prompt]

 If you would like to try variations of this task with students, some task options are provided here:
 [Teacher Guide.docx] [Teacher Guide.pdf]



What do you think Emily understands and does not understand about fractions?  What question, task or explanation would you provide next if you were working with Emily?  Please add your ideas to the What Would You Do Next? discussion (below) and note whether you agree or disagree with the posts from other participants.