Teaching Mathematics Through An Inquiry approach

1. Teaching Mathematics Through An Inquiry approach Utilizing both the Thinking Strategies and the Math Practice Standards…

2. Where’s the inquiry? -

3. “Teachers should focus on teaching the students, not the subject.” Inquiry is a dynamic process of being open to wonder and puzzlement and coming to know and understand the world.

4. Inquiry Based Learning • Inquiry based learning fosters opportunities for students to THINK together. • Inquiry based learning eliminates the shame of mistakes. • Inquiry based learning acknowledges the need for differentiation. • Inquiry based learning generates curiosity, challenges our minds, and helps foster a love of learning.

5. Inquiry based projects / tasks

6. Inquiry based instruction • Highly Effective Instructional Practices • from the Continuum of Growth… • Encourages all students to ask and pursue authentic questions. • Apprentices students in facilitating their own discussions, allowing teachers to participate and provide additional insights. • Teaches students to hold each other accountable in their conversations about ideas and behavior. • Uses collaborative learning intentionally to deepen and expand learning for all students. • Follows students’ lines of inquiry in a strategic manner. • Encourages and challenges student thinking. • Focuses on a specific purpose throughout crafting the lesson. • Invites students to model their thinking for peers. • Focuses on teaching thinking strategies in both an integrated and focused way. • Provides opportunities for students to take leadership roles in conducting respectful, purposeful, structured, learning-focused discussion. • Teaches and reinforces discourse that is “accountable to rigorous thinking.”