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Questions and Prompts for Mathematical Thinking
Challenging questions to tease out structures and concepts of mathematics
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Best-selling discussion book re-written for KS1 and KS2 teachers.
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Questions and Prompts for Mathematical Thinking
Good questioning, by teachers and learners, is the key to learning mathematics.
Anne Watson and John Mason have put together a collection of cogent and challenging questions which are designed to tease out structures and concepts at the heart of mathematics. But this book is much more than a collection of questions; they present a framework for generating a wide range of mathematical questions and prompts which can be used:
By Learners: To explore mathematics, to make sense of textbooks and to question each other...and their teachers!
...and yes, the questions can also be used to enrich interactive whole-class teaching.
ISBN 1 898611 05 X
The questions and prompts in this book arise from considering some of the work of Zygfryd Dyrszlag, a Polish mathematics educator. He produced a list of 63 questions which teachers can ask students in order both to promote, and to monitor the development of students' concepts. His list was translated for us by Anna Sierpinska. The questions resonated with our sense of mathematical thinking and mathematical structure, and stimulated us to identify some themes and structure underlying the questions so that we could integrate the wealth of ideas into a useful collection for ourselves and perhaps colleagues. Our development of the questions may bear no relationship to Dyrszlag’s intentions; what follows is therefore an example of how chance encounters with ideas can, with thought and discussion, trial and reflection, trigger changes of practice.
