I interviewed a kindergarten student, some of the questions on my interview questionnaire were modified based on he couldn’t answer some of the questions. I asked the student three questions about addition and finding missing whole numbers. For the interview, I sat across the table from the student and used pictures as my manipulatives to help the student along with the questions. The first question I asked the student was to show my twenty-three (23) beans. At first the student began grabbing the beans and making along strand. When he was finished, I asked him to count aloud how many beans he put together. He replied with “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23.” I wanted to see if maybe he messed up in counting …show more content…
Two recommendations I have for the student that would enhance the student’s mathematic ability’s is to do a counting game and grouping activity. A counting game I would conduct for the student is doing a fill in the blank number line. The number line will have missing numbers so it’s up to the student to demine the missing numbers asked on the given clues (numbers already listed). The second recommendation I have is grouping activity, which essentially will teach the student how to group together numbers. As you can recall the student struggle on question two about the donuts. To help the student I would determine a baseline. Can the child create one group? What about two groups? Can he add or subtract two groups? Does he understand word problems? Once I determine the struggling area, I would address it and eventually begin determining how many groups I need to add over time. So, for example if he knows how to put two groups together, then I can soon introduce him into grouping three groups. On a side note, I do acknowledge that it is the beginning of kindergarten and he has not fully learned all his numbers. I also took into consideration that kindergarten could be his first time in school and has no previous education besides what he learned at home. Parents should also be working with their child at home by doing fun activities that involve math. These can be simple things like reading a story and have the child count the words on each page or having the child count how many objects (books, tables, tv’s, etc.) are in the house. These little exercises for the mind can be extremely beneficial to the child and their learning ability to understand mathematical