Margaret and her PLC created stems for their math courses to help students justify their answers in writing.
Stems to help students justify their math answers:
The steps I took to solve are …
The answer is … To get my answer, I …
The solution makes sense because …
Frames for interpreting the meaning of slope and intercepts:
Slope: With each additional …, the predicted … increases/decreases by …
Intercept: When … is 0, the predicted … is …
Frames and Stems to describe graphs:
The graph of … is skewed left / skewed right / symmetrical / evenly distributed. This means that …