Think about the questions that you ask in your math classroom. Can they be answered with a simple “yes” or “no,” or do they open a door for students to really share their knowledge in a way that highlights their true understanding and uncovers their misunderstandings? Asking better questions can open new doors for students, helping to promote mathematical thinking and encouraging classroom discourse. Such questions help students:
- Work together to make sense of mathematics.
- Rely more on themselves to determine whether something is mathematically correct.
- Learn to reason mathematically.
- Evaluate their own processes and engage in productive peer interaction.
- Discover and seek help with problems in their comprehension.
- Learn to conjecture, invent and solve problems.
- Learn to connect mathematics, its ideas and its applications.
- Focus on the mathematical skills embedded within activities.
Click here for the 100 questions from mathematics expert Dr. Gladis Kersaint to help you address these core areas and promote mathematical thinking and discourse in the classroom. For more, please download Dr. Kersaint’s new whitepaper:Orchestrating Mathematical Discourse to Enhance Student Learning.
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