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Benefit: Quote dig allows students to examine a quote and analyze the important information allowing for critical thinking

Example: A quote dig can be very similar to analyzing a students claim because they both involve examining into the quote they are given to find out the important information.

TEKS: 5.1(b) use a problem-solving model that incorporates analyzing given information, formulating a plan or strategy, determining a solution, justifying the solution, and evaluating the problem-solving process and the reasonableness of the solution;

Source: Alana Morris

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Benefit: Talk Read Talk Write is a strategy that supports student engagement and facilitates discussions allowing for student growth.

Example: An example when this could be done in a math course is during lessons where students are relying their prior knowledge of the subject to each other.

TEKS: 8.1(d)use a problem-solving model that incorporates analyzing given information, formulating a plan or strategy, determining a solution, justifying the solution, and evaluating the problem-solving process and the reasonableness of the solution

Source: Nancy Motley (2016)

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Benefit: This strategy involves students interacting with each other and helps build a community early on in a semester which is when the strategy should ideally be used.

Example: In my 8th grade example classroom I want to implement the reporter formula by asking students what they know about linear relationships.

TEKS: 8.5(I) write an equation in the form y = mx + b to model a linear relationship between two quantities using verbal, numerical, tabular, and graphical representations.

Source: 1st Century Ancient Greece

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Benefit: The benefit of Nuh UH! is that students are allowed to defend their position and need information to do so.

Example: In a 4th grade math course given a problem that was deals with balancing a budget students have to be sure they understand what they're doing otherwise they're at risk of mismanaging their funds.

TEKS 5.10(e) describe actions that might be taken to balance a budget when expenses exceed income

Source: Alana Morris (2023)

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Benefits: Students interact from each other and help facilitate the spreading of ideas.

TEKS: Explain verbally and symbolically the relationship between the volume of a triangular prism and a triangular pyramid having both congruent bases and heights and connect that relationship to the formulas.

Source: Chapin, O'Connor and Anderson (2009)

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Benefit: There is a place in the room where all the vocabulary is "homed" to which helps students turn their attention to.

TEKS: Calculate the total cost of repaying a loan, including credit cards and easy access loans, under various rates of interest and over different periods using an online calculator.

Source: Cronsberry (2004)

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Benefit: Students have the capability to look back at their notes and see what the most important thing they felt was and condensing their notes makes it easier to study

TEKS: 5.3(b) multiply with fluency a three-digit number by a two-digit number using the standard algorithm;

Source: Javier Martinez (2025)

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Benefit: students connecting words together allows them to go back to their knowledge.

TEKS: Solve real-world problems comparing how interest rate and loan length affect the cost of credit.

Source: New Jersey Writing Project in Texas (Joice Armstrong Carrol 1995)

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Benefits: It allows students to showcase their known information, allows students to ponder on what they would like to learn and lastly establish what they did learn which are good indicators for both the student and educator.

TEKS: Use the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse to solve problems.

Source: Ogle Donna (1986)

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Benefit: Students gain a different perspective when sharing out with classmates and are mindful of what they say since there's a clearcut end

TEKS: represent decimals, including tenths and hundredths, using concrete and visual models and money;

Source: Jennifer fischor-mueller, gene thompson-grove

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Benefit: Students have something that represents a key idea learned in a lesson meaning its more likely to be absorbed by them.

TEKS: Number and operations. The student applies mathematical process standards to represent, compare, and order whole numbers and decimals and understand relationships related to place value.

Source: Alana Morris (1992)

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benefits: It provides a structure for educators to follow that ensures discussions and classroom talks are productive and efficient

TEKS: Represent quotients of decimals to the hundredths, up to four-digit dividends and two-digit whole number divisors, using objects and pictorial models, including area models;

Source: John Seidlitz (2008)

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Benefits: It ensures that there is a balanced classroom where students are equally speaking, writing, reading and learning.

TEKS: 4.1(g) display, explain, and justify mathematical ideas and arguments using precise mathematical language in written or oral communication.

Source: Region 4 education center

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Benefits: Gives students multiple trials to get said what they want to have said and eventually they say what they are most confident in and feel better about their explanation skills.

TEKS: Math 6.9(C)

write corresponding real-world problems given one-variable, one-step equations or inequalities.

Source: Elisha Otis (1853)

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Benefits: Students understand and comprehend their writing better because of their exposure to it.

TEKS: Display, explain, and justify mathematical ideas and arguments using precise mathematical language in written or oral

source: New Jersey Writing Project