RUME 14 (Volume 4)
2011
Portland, Oregon
BUILDING KNOWLEDGE WITHIN CLASSROOM MATHEMATICS DISCUSSIONS
Page: 24
Over the past decade, a growing trend has been to center instruction around student learning, rather than teacher performance. Such instruction often elicits student parti pation through various classroom activities: answering questions; solving problems; having students do board work; working on collaborative tasks in groups or pairs; making and testing conjectures; presenting ideas, proofs, and solutions; and debating. Through the and other classroom activities, students are expected to engage in the learning process, participate in mathematical thinking, and contribute to classroom discourse.