For my intervention I made activities where students received math problems on certain
concepts we learned: fraction variable expressions and equations and percentages, then they
read explanations that I created on how to solve the problems or wrote explanations on how to
solve the problems. There was a space under each set of explanations where students could
answer questions to help them analyze the explanations. Then they discussed the explanations
with partners. I assigned partners based on their location in the classroom, but because students
were absent, students had different partners for some activities. The problems and explanations
given were about the concept that the students were currently working on, therefore I could
compare their own problem solving with their explanation analyzing writing. At the end of each
analysis/writing, students answered a small survey on the activity. It asked questions like: “How
did you like this activity?” “How helpful was the activity?” “What did you learn today?” “What are
you still having trouble with?