https://earlymathcounts.org/what-are-they-thinking/ Laying the foundation for a lifetime of achievement Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:26:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://earlymathcounts.org/what-are-they-thinking/#comment-7426 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:26:26 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=3906#comment-7426 Nice conversation. Great for the children because they were working together yet had some different ideas. Teacher helped them to share their individual thinking and to focus their shared work.

]]> https://earlymathcounts.org/what-are-they-thinking/#comment-7111 Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:01:16 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=3906#comment-7111 This is a great reminder that we as teachers cannot assume what children are thinking or doing. We need to step back and observe what children are doing and ask questions to piece together what is going on. Children telling us their reasoning helps us not only understand their reasoning skills, but helps us use our as well!

]]> https://earlymathcounts.org/what-are-they-thinking/#comment-2515 Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:22:35 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=3906#comment-2515 It’s very helpful to have this concrete example, to explain what is meant by interacting intentionally with the children. As a teacher considering this scenario, I can see that I need to slow down the pace of my classroom to allow for time to simply observe and listen, in order to making my own interactions intentional.

]]> https://earlymathcounts.org/what-are-they-thinking/#comment-2038 Sat, 21 Apr 2018 14:19:15 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=3906#comment-2038 nice student teacher interaction and help for the children to articulate what they are thinking

]]> https://earlymathcounts.org/what-are-they-thinking/#comment-1926 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 23:09:14 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=3906#comment-1926 I appreciate how the teacher didn’t lead the activity. She asked the right questions but they decided how they wanted to test if the items rolled and then categorized them in their own way. She was a facilitator and gave them language, but they made the rules

]]> https://earlymathcounts.org/what-are-they-thinking/#comment-687 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:50:00 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=3906#comment-687 I like the idea of re-voicing their ideas, that way it extends the activity and possibly creates new thinking and problem solving skills

]]> https://earlymathcounts.org/what-are-they-thinking/#comment-686 Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:49:01 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=3906#comment-686 I enjoyed the way that the teacher followed the reasoning of the children and re voiced their ideas. She invited herself into the group instead of taking the activity over.

]]> https://earlymathcounts.org/what-are-they-thinking/#comment-685 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:38:11 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=3906#comment-685 The abstraction rule.

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