When students become active doers rather than passive consumers of mathematics the greatest gains of their mathematical and statistical thinking can be realized.
The process of sense-making truly begins when we create questioning, curious classrooms full of students' own thoughts and ideas
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What do you notice? What do you wonder?
Gives students opportunities to see problems in big-picture ways and discover multiple strategies for tackling a problem.
Self-confidence, reflective skills, and engagement soar,
The goal is not to be "over and done," but to realize the many different ways to approach problems.
https://www.nctm.org/mathforum/Set up
Take a sheet of paper
Fold in half and half again then fold the centre fold corner in
Unfold
I wonder
How you got here today [car, walk, bus, uber, taxi, helicopter]
How many years have you been teaching
How many vehicles in your household
Are right or left handed
What your handspan is (to nearest cm)
Crowd sourced
Further reading resources
NCTM problem solving with I notice an I wonder
I notice I wonder statements Nosey Parker 1
What is going on in this graph - New York Times