Math Question Stems
Now I Get It!
Websites
I highly recommend Now I Get It: Strategies for Building
Confident and Competent Mathematicians, K-6 by Susan
O'Connell. O'Connell (2005) discusses the importance of
the teacher's ability to ask questions to guide students as
they connect what they are learning to previous knowledge.
I am including a sampling of a Question Stem chart that is
located on p. 43 of the text.
The following is a list
of websites with
question stems to
elicit math
conversations.
Clarify Ideas and Procedures
Can you restate that in your own words?
Are you saying...?
Can someone tell me what you will be doing in your gr
Observe and Draw Conclusions
What observations did you make?
What did you notice about...?
Compare and/or Contrast Ideas or Concepts
How is ___ like ___? How is it different?
Connect Ideas to Other Ideas
What does this remind you of?
When have we seen something like this before?
How is this related to what we did last week?
http://www.rogersher
r.dpsnc.net/links/que
stion_stems/math.sh
tml
http://readingsage.blogspot.com/2
011/10/bloomstaxonomy-mathquestionsstems.html
http://adrianbruce.co
m/teachertoolbox/34-questionstems-to-encouragestudent-reflection/
References:
O'Connell, S. (2005) Now I get it: Strategies for building confident and competent
mathematicians, K-6. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.