Questioning

Why focus on questioning?

• Incorporating higher level questioning can increase engagement and understanding in all students
• Questions relating to mathematical practices can support student work with the practices standards.
• Assessment and engagement of all students
• Good questioning allows you to understand student rationale in their thinking

Talk Moves -Support Student participation

• Revoicing
• Rephrasing
• Reasoning
• Elaborating
• Waiting

Patterns of questioning

• Initiation-Response-Feedback: Lower level questioning with quick answers
• Funneling: Lead students to desired answer
• Focusing: Higher level questioning based on student thinking not desired teacher response

Strategies for questioning

• Plan ahead to craft higher level thinking questions
• Utilize wait time
• Reflect on questioning and revise
• Create go-to higher level questions
• Use questioning for assessment

Questioning with math practices

• Make sense and persever - "How can you solve a simpler task to help with this problem?"
• Reason abstractly and quantitaively - "How are your answers alike or different?"
• Construct viable arguments and critique reasoning of others - "Why did you use (strategy) to solve the problem?"
• Model with mathematics - " How does your model connect with the outcome?"
• Make use of structure - "Does this remind you of another problem?"

Resources

• Asking Questions and Promoting Discourse. Asking questions and promoting discourse - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (n.d.). Retrieved February 12, 2023, from https://www.nctm.org/Conferences-and-Professional-Development/Tips-for-Teac...
• Mathematics TEKS Toolkit: (Charles A Dana Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2012) http://www.utdanacenter.org/mathtoolkit/support/questioning.php
• et al., M. B. M. (n.d.). Everything You Need for Mathematics Coaching. Retrieved from https://platform.virdocs.com/read/592492/124/#/4/4