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Teacher gave students a real world situation they are familiar with so they can relate to the problem.

Allowed students to use vocabulary they are comfortable with to describe the prompt.

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Student thinking was recorded on the board.

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Asking students something they know about. Accessing their prior knowledge. Valuing their thoughts by writing it down.

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Asked students about familiar places or spaces they might see scale drawings.

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Students were able to apply their own relevant vocabulary. Access prior knowledge

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Teacher highlighted student appropriated description or vocabulary

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Being able to build on prior knowledge and guided questioning, allowed the students to explore and hear the explanation or ideas of other students.

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Relatable material, their own responses..

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Connect the problem to students by asking them if they've ever been to a place named in the problem or if they've ever participated in the activity mentioned

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It was different in that the vocabulary students used was accepted and utilized instead of preset vocabulary terms

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Letting the students use prior knowledge

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It is different from the prior years because we went straight into the DEI / modeling.

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Always try to connect the task or topic to real world scenarios, which for 7th grade math is easy to do. (i.e. percents, ratios)

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Students use relativeness in order to identify or clarify their understanding of the vocabulary words.