Öğrenme Etkinliği – 2

Learning Objective: Calculating the circumference of a rectangle

School: İstanbul Kartal Özel Çam İlkokulu, Turkey

Level: 4th Grade

Teacher: Asuman Ağören

Researcher: Dr Yusuf Koç (Kocaeli University, Turkey)

Video Transcript:

RESEARCHER: Okay, come. Calculate the side length together. Three people will calculate the circumference. Together.

STUDENT: One hundred and fifty.

RESEARCHER: One hundred and fifty?

STUDENT: No, that’s twenty-five.

RESEARCHER: Thirty.

STUDENT: Forty-five, forty-five.

RESEARCHER: No. Don’t bother with the twenty-five over there. What is its circumference?

STUDENT: One hundred and forty

STUDENT: One hundred and fifty.

RESEARCHER: One hundred and fifty, right?

STUDENT: One hundred and fifty.

RESEARCHER: Okay, how did you find the one hundred and fifty? Tell us.

STUDENT: One hundred and sixty?

TEACHER: How did you find the one hundred and fifty?

RESEARCHER: How did you find the one hundred and fifty?

STUDENT: This is forty-five. Since this is forty-five here, I added forty-five to forty-five. Ninety. Since this place is thirty, I added thirty to thirty. Sixty. I added sixty to ninety. Hundred and fifty.

RESEARCHER: Great. Thanks. Thank you. Super. Now you? With whom should they code the robot?

TEACHER: With Tuana.

RESEARCHER: Yes, code with Tuana.

RESEARCHER: It will go around, of course. The robot will travel one hundred and fifty centimetres. Take it a little further back, a little further back. Yeah.

STUDENT: Shall we start?

RESEARCHER: As you wish. Of course, one of them does.

TEACHER: You can open it.

RESEARCHER: Press the other. Ok, go ahead! Keep going.

STUDENT: Then?

STUDENT: No.

RESEARCHER: Speak.

STUDENT: No. Right.

STUDENT: Do I need to push?

STUDENT: push

RESEARCHER: Thank you. So how many centimetres did the robot travel?

STUDENT: One hundred and fifty.

RESEARCHER: He travelled one hundred and fifty centimetres.

RESEARCHER: So how did they code the robot? Who wants to say? How did they code the robot?

TEACHER: Kerem please tell me.

RESEARCHER: Kerem, how did they code?

STUDENT: Three steps forward, one right, two steps forward, one right, three steps forward, one right, two steps forward.

RESEARCHER: Is it true?

STUDENT: Yes