Will a focus on student discourse improve the mathematics achievement of lower achieving students?
Developing Mathematical Inquiry Communities
This exemplar describes how two teachers worked to develop classroom learning communities in which students learned to engage with the teacher and each other in mathematical inquiry, reasoning, and argumentation.2 It traces significant changes in teacher knowledge and pedagogy and in student behaviour and mathematical practices through a collaborative, school-based, professional learning process
After watching this and reading the article I created an outline in kids speak of what I was expecting in group problem solving. We revisited this often in Term 1 and 2 and the kids did become better at listening to each other. There was an expectation that all children in the group contributed and questioned each other if they weren’t sure.
The kids were given problem solving books to use as a group and the groups were set up with a range of abilities.
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