Chapter 7 -Intentional Talk by Elizabeth Vaca

“How did this impact your prior knowledge of the topic?” or “What was your initial reaction to chapter 7?”

evaca4671 — 2021-11-30 19:32:13 UTC

This chapter helped me focus on "How can teachers treat students as sense makers and find the logic in students' partial understandings."

evaca4671 — 2021-12-03 16:07:22 UTC

Sense Making

2021-12-03 16:37:59 UTC

It is important to give something for students to actually make sense of! They need a context to engage with in order to deepen their understanding and develop procedural fluency in all grades. Context first, then develop procedures!

2021-12-03 16:38:08 UTC

Teachers can use errors as opportunities for advancing mathematical thinking. Treating students as sense makers!

Sense Making

2021-12-03 16:38:14 UTC

This chapter helped remind me that we should look at mistakes as "desirable contributions"

2021-12-03 16:38:18 UTC

Errors can act as opportunities for advancing mathematical thinking, it's important as teachers to think about how to treat students as sense makers and find logic in partial understanding to support productive conversation.

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michelleormonde — 2021-12-03 16:38:42 UTC

I loved the true false problem they gave along with the discussion. I liked how the teacher gave a real life explanation to help the students make sense. (skittles)

2021-12-03 16:39:07 UTC

Renaming mistakes to desirable outcomes. Using student misconceptions to really get to the heart of the math process! <3

2021-12-03 16:39:26 UTC

Addressing the mathematical practices of making sense of the problem and persevering when solving them.

2021-12-03 16:40:06 UTC

It's worth the time to allow students to think about what their question is before trying to figure out the answer.

I appreciated the sentence stems on p. 121. I'm thinking about how they fit with the talk slides I've been sharing with teachers.

sciencetools — 2021-12-03 16:40:07 UTC

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y2IcAb3lrviqD76XSStj5xVDzF358zG61LofNq6T-us/edit?usp=sharing

Let students think

2021-12-03 16:40:30 UTC

Misconceptions are powerful opportunities for learning.

2021-12-03 16:40:39 UTC

The norms for learning from errors, which are nurtured in the classroom, are vital in making this type of dicussion successful.