Agency and Positioning was authored by a group from the United States. The authors are: Jennifer Jacobs, Karen Koellner, Marcela Rojas and Jeffrey Bush.
The case study examines a lesson from Bogotá, Colombia and focuses on:
- What happens when students are provided with agency and asked to solve a rich mathematics problem.
The video is made up of four different parts:
- Part 1: The teacher reviews the quadratic formula. (00:11 – 02:30)
- Part 2: The teacher sets up the class goal. (02:30- 03:40)
- Part 3: Students perform a skit around a contextualized problem. (03:40 – 10:38)
- Part 4: Students model a particular mathematical situation around production. (10:38 – 22:11)
The full case study is available in the attachments section. The comments on the video have been added by the OECD on behalf of the authors. The blue comments relate to the mathematics, the yellow comments to the teaching moves, and the brown comments are questions to consider. We invite you and your peers to add your own thoughts and comments on the video at different timestamps, or build on the ideas that are already there, in order to help foster a global exchange on mathematics teaching.
