93579 - Workshop on Numbers and Relationship. Reflections and Analysis of Teaching Activities (G.I)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the laboratory, students: - know how to apply what was covered in the integrated course within a simulated learning environment; - know how to reflect critically with peers on the proposed topics.

Course contents

This laboratory is part of an integrated laboratory that includes:
93608 - Laboratory of teaching innovation and educational technologies (3 credits) and 93579 - Laboratory of numbers and relationships. Reflections and analysis of teaching activities (1 credit, 8 hours) for a total of 4 credits and 32 hours.

It is necessary to check the lesson calendar (mandatory attendance) remembering that it is not possible to make absences during the first lesson (12 March 2024, 9-13 hours) and it is not possible to make absences during the hours held by Prof. Maffia (22 and 29 April 2024, 2-6 pm).

Program of the integrated laboratory "Technologies to support teaching and continuous teacher training: reflections and analysis of teaching activities on numbers and relationships through video analysis"


The Laboratory intends to propose the use of video analysis as a training device useful for promoting knowledge and implementation of effective teaching and evaluation strategies to support student learning and encourage their activation and involvement in the classroom. Video analysis allows the use of video recordings of teaching and evaluation practices in the classroom or in simulated contexts to exercise teachers' analytical skills and their consequent reflective thinking, in particular through noticing actions, i.e. the ability to recognize and detect the main elements of teaching action, and reasoning, i.e. knowing how to reflect on these elements, in order to promote the development of teaching professionalism by helping teachers themselves to exercise analytical thinking on their own and others' practices and to improve their own teaching.


The students will be involved - with the guidance and accompaniment of the teachers - in individual and small group video analysis activities, supported by the use of a specific online platform. The laboratory involves the analysis of mathematical teaching practices carried out in nursery and primary schools, the planning of mathematical teaching activities also through the mediation of technologies, the video recording of the planned activities and their subsequent analysis, discussion and reflection activities. These activities will be carried out both individually and in small groups.


Enrollment in the FUNDAMENTALS OF MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICS TEACHING (C.I.) 'Group C' lab of prof. Maffia which will be held on the dates 22.4 and 29.4 both at 2-6pm is automatic for those who are enrolled in Professor Pacetti's integrated laboratory.

Readings/Bibliography

The main references of the integrated laboratory are:


-the European DigCompEdu framework:

Bocconi, S., Earp, J., and Panesi S. (2018). DigCompEdu. Il quadro di riferimento europeo sulle competenze digitali dei docenti. Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). DOI: https://doi.org/10.17471/54008 ;

-Castellini, Giberti, Maffia (2023). AttivAzione. Laboratori di matematica per la scuola del primo ciclo. Padova: libreriauniversitaria.it edizioni.

Teaching methods

This laboratory is part of a University's teaching experimentation project.

The course is organized in laboratory mode and includes both practical tests evaluated by the teachers during the meetings, and tests/papers to be presented or delivered at the end of the meetings. In consideration of the type of activity and the teaching methods adopted, attendance of this training activity requires the prior participation of all students in modules 1 and 2 [https://elearning-sicurezza.unibo.it/] of training on safety in places of study, in e-learning mode.

Assessment methods

lthough it is an integrated laboratory, the evaluation for the Teaching Innovation and Educational Technologies Laboratory and that for the Numbers and Relationships Laboratory will be separate.


The Laboratory of Teaching Innovation and Educational Technologies (code 93608) active since the academic year. 2023/2024 (students enrolled in the current fourth year) provides for an evaluation out of thirty, which is used to calculate the weighted average together with the evaluation of the Teaching Innovation and Educational Technologies teaching.


The Educational Technologies Laboratory (code 68014) (students in debt of the laboratory enrolled in the fifth year and later) has an evaluation which is expressed as suitability, accompanied by a qualitative evaluation (sufficient, good, excellent, with honours) on the basis of:


-active participation in the laboratory;


- behavior of the student;


-punctuality in the delivery of papers, exercises, artefacts;


-quality of the works produced according to specific criteria shared in the classroom by the laboratory teacher.


To obtain eligibility, the student must attend lessons and actively participate in the proposed activities in person; deliver all the required exercises respecting the deadlines.


For the Numbers and Relations Laboratory (code 93579), both active participation during the in-person hours and the paper to be delivered to the teacher within the deadlines set according to the indications provided during the laboratory will be evaluated. The final evaluation contributes to the evaluation of the Mathematics Education Course exam with elements of statistics for a value equal to –1, 0 or +1.


For all laboratories


Please remember that each laboratory includes hours of in-person lessons and hours of individual study (each CFU is 25 hours in total). Therefore it will not be enough to attend the laboratory to obtain the evaluation, it will instead be necessary to carry out all the required exercises.

Teaching tools

The online platform will be used in various phases of the work also for sharing support materials.

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Maffia