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Questioning to Increase Rigor during Math Instruction

Background knowledge and teacher-preparation:

1. Understand what a good question is

2. Understand the difference between good and bad questions

3. Practice writing good questions using Bloom’s taxonomy

4. Make question starters on tag board

5. Provide a safe, risk-free environment for students to ask and answer questions

6. Post questions and strategy math icons in classroom to help students remember them

7. Refer to Nancy Johnson books for help writing questions

8. Incorporate technology when writing questions

9. Understand that good questioning will lead to better test results

10. Choose good questions for warm-ups in the classroom

11. Develop one good question for a homework assignment, for example:

How could we measure the perimeter of this classroom?

12. Make question bulletin boards that are manipulated by the students: ex. Question That

Strategies for classroom instruction :

13. Demonstrate that getting the right answer is important, but that communicating about the thinking that goes into solving the problem is even more important

14. Ask open-ended questions to get more student involvement, especially for girls since they seem to want to answer only if they know they are correct

15. Use open-ended questions to elicit critical and creative thinking from students

16. Use Bloom’s taxonomy to write and ask questions

17. Provide Bloom’s taxonomy for students to ask and write good questions

18. Ask students if there’s another way of solving the problem

19. Guide students to different ways of solving a given problem through questioning

20. Teach the strategy: The answer is _________; What is the question? as a great way to show students how to answer open-ended questions

21. Ask what job in the real word would use this question during their work day

22. Build confidence through open-ended experiences

23. Create questions with students and then have students create their own questions

24. Give more processing time to allow students to think

25. Emphasize the importance of questions and how to answer them with deeper thought

26. Plan a Question Wall with the students

27. Write questions that have to be answered during class and if they are not answered then start the next class with answering those questions

28. Play Cush Ball: 1st person throws ball asking a question and then person who catches ball answers the question and throws it to someone else to answer the same question.

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