Synthesis Reading Reflection
This synthesis reading reflection highlights thoughts about implementing discourse with a specific focus on asking purposeful questions.
Above you will find a personal reflection related to the facilitation of mathematical discourse within my classroom. Within this personal reflection I discuss the impact of having access to questioning tools that can be utilized to to assess and advance student understanding (II.b.iv.). Additionally, I reflect on the role that multiple representations in mathematics play in developing and extending student understanding with regard to student discourse (II.b.iii.). Students in my classroom have been expected to share their thinking and justify their solutions but now there is a shift towards explaining how multiple representations are connected (II.b.v.). This is accomplished by sharing the existing knowledge and skills that students possess (VII.a.i) while completing tasks independently and then having them justify, critique, and connect their thinking and the thinking of their peers.
Mathematics Specialist Standards
II.a.i. Utilize and build upon learners’ existing knowledge, skills, understandings, conceptions and misconceptions to advance learning.
II.b.iii. Construct and evaluate multiple representations of mathematical ideas or processes, establish correspondences between representations, and understand the purpose and value of doing so.
II.b.iv. Use questions to effectively probe mathematical understanding and make productive use of responses.
II.b.v. Develop learners' abilities to give clear and coherent public mathematical communications in a classroom setting.