Saturday, August 22, 2009

Uncovering Student Thinking in Mathematics

Number and Operations assessment probes
Focus through Instruction.
Pay careful attention to children's ability to ccount.
Help students shift representations when counting to numerals.
Give practice in instant recogniton of small quantities.
Connect numbers with their use as real world quantities.
Build up students' intuitive sense of "which has more".
Lead students to compare the quantities represented.
Make direct comparisions between quantities and size by asking students about the relationship.
Provide opportunities for students to have conversations about their conjectures about quantity.
Use explicit language during instruction to refer to the comparison of collection of objects in terms of quantity.

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