MODERN EDUCATION
  • Main Page
  • Stanford CLF
  • Purchase/Donate
    • More Radio Show Content
  • Personal/Professional Information
    • Research Interests
  • Teacher Resource Pages
    • Lesson Plan Examples
    • Noyce Scholar Problems
    • Teaching Blog
  • Contact Me:
  • The Quarantine Chronicle

Five practices to have meaningful discussions about mathematical ideas in the classroom.

11/2/2013

0 Comments

 
These practices can be used to make connections in class and structure mathematical discussion towards particular goals. 
  1. Anticipate- by having a firm grasp on possible approaches to solutions you can prepare to structure discussion based on what students will try on a problem. This minimizes the amount of improvisation you must do on the spot.
  2. Monitor- keeping a close eye on student solutions and understanding during work time will allow you to make strategic selections for students to present solutions.
  3. Selecting- through anticipating a flow of ideas from most accessible to most sophisticated, and monitoring which students have used the ideas you anticipated, you can select students to present who can progress the mathematical sophistication of the conversation.
  4. Sequencing- student responses presented in a specific sequence can connect ideas based on level of sophistication and validate students understanding by clearly showing how superficial ideas connect to more sophisticated approaches.
  5. Connecting- the student responses to show how each approach highlighted has valid connections to the underlying goals, and gives students a well rounded vision of a particular concept.

(Schwan & Stein, 2011)
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    By: Mr. Woodford

    I will reflect on ideas and practices I learn through my formative years as a classroom math teacher.

    Archives

    August 2018
    March 2017
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    May 2015
    March 2015
    January 2015
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013

    Categories

    All
    #mathchat
    #ProblemSolving

    RSS Feed

Location

"Perseverance is key to finding other keys!"
-Mr. Woodford


"You have to be odd to be number 1."
-Dr. Seuss

"The Past is never dead. It's not even past."
-Faulkner

Contact Us

    Subscribe Today!

Submit
  • Main Page
  • Stanford CLF
  • Purchase/Donate
    • More Radio Show Content
  • Personal/Professional Information
    • Research Interests
  • Teacher Resource Pages
    • Lesson Plan Examples
    • Noyce Scholar Problems
    • Teaching Blog
  • Contact Me:
  • The Quarantine Chronicle