Teaching & Assessing Math for Understanding

Teaching & Assessing Math for Understanding

Teaching & Assessing Math for Understanding By Marian Small What kinds of questions do you ask to see not only whether students can do the math, but whether they understand the critical underlying ideas?...
Creating Richer Math Conversations

Creating Richer Math Conversations

Creating Richer Math Conversations By Marian Small We know students learn through more conversation. But how do you facilitate them? We’ll look at very specific strategies....
Creating Richer Math Conversations

It’s Not the Task: It’s the Follow Up

It’s Not the Task: It’s the Follow Up By Marian Small Many of us would argue that it’s less about the task itself and more about the questions teacher asks as and after students work on it....
Focusing on Assets, Not Deficits

Focusing on Assets, Not Deficits

Focusing on Assets, Not Deficits By Marian Small How do we teach so that instead of students constantly confronting what they cannot do, we let them show us what they can do and build from there?...