Clip 6/10: Day 19: Building from students’ answers to strategic understandings
Overview
Explaining Thinking: By week three of the school year, Patty Ferrant presents several student responses on a large sheet of chart paper, then challenges students to evaluate the student-generated justifications and proofs.
Even over a few weeks’ time, Patty is able to increasingly assume that students understand what it means for them all to work toward sense-making.
Consider:
How can you highlight and contrast students’ various approaches to problem solving?