SOS – ROOT – Researching Order of Teaching https://rootmath.boisestate.edu Researching Order of Teaching in Grades 6-8 Math Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:07:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 SOS 1 – Assigning contextualized problems with multiple solution strategies https://rootmath.boisestate.edu/strategy/sample-sos-strategy/ Sun, 23 May 2021 01:05:35 +0000 https://rootmath.boisestate.edu/?post_type=strategy&p=71 Routines
  • Students generate questions to investigate within a context
  • Students work to solve an open task with minimal teacher intervention
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]]> SOS 2 – Asking students for extended responses https://rootmath.boisestate.edu/strategy/asking-students-for-extended-responses/ Sun, 23 May 2021 01:22:13 +0000 https://rootmath.boisestate.edu/?post_type=strategy&p=77 Routines
  • Each students explains their thinking out loud
  • Students analyze and explain a given solution to a math problem
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]]> SOS 3 Asking students to look for patterns and make conjectures https://rootmath.boisestate.edu/strategy/asking-students-to-look-for-patterns-and-make-conjectures/ Sun, 23 May 2021 01:22:59 +0000 https://rootmath.boisestate.edu/?post_type=strategy&p=78 Routines
  • Students name what is changing and staying the same in a context
  • Students interact with examples / data to generate & test conjectures
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]]> SOS 4 – Promoting discourse around emerging ideas / points of confusion https://rootmath.boisestate.edu/strategy/promoting-discourse-around-emerging-ideas-points-of-confusion/ Sun, 23 May 2021 01:23:40 +0000 https://rootmath.boisestate.edu/?post_type=strategy&p=79 Routines
  • Students discuss a solution with errors and / or struggles
  • Students share ideas with peers prior to completing a problem
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