This session is an opportunity for junior and intermediate mathematics teachers to explore how tweaking their question and using collaborative classroom strategies can build deeper conceptual understandings in number sense. Using the Critical Thinking Consortium’s approach to powerful questioning in the mathematics classroom, this webinar will support teachers in a collaborative process of considering the research, instructional strategies, classroom ideas, and attitudes that deepen number sense and support achievement in elementary mathematics.

NOTE: This session is the second in a four-part series. Links for other completed sessions are listed below.

Audience: Junior/Intermediate

Resources:

• The Critical Thinking Consortium
• Tools 4 Thought
• Ministry’s Capacity Building series: Bansho, Asking Effective Questions, Communications in the Mathematics Classroom
• Books/Websites:
  • Arthur Hyde
  • Catherine Bruce – Student interaction in the math classroom
  • Sherry Parrish – Number Talks
  • Lainie Schuster & Nancy Caravan Anderson – Good questions for math teaching
  • Jo Boaler
  • Marian Small – Eyes on Math
• Strategies:
  • Two Stray, One Stay, Gallery walk – three-part lessons, Gallery Walk, Math Congress & Bansho
• Dan Meyer – blog, the Water Tank Problem
• Tools: Wolfram Alpha, Nrich

Other sessions in this series:

• Nurturing Confidence in Elementary Mathematics Students Through Inquiry
• Using Critical Thinking to Foster Number Sense in Elementary Mathematics Students
• Engaging Students in Mathematics Through Critical Inquiry
• Re-thinking Assessment in Mathematics