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developmental model for incorporating writing into a math class
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managing journals, developing prompts for writing, and providing students with feedback
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Moving From Open-Ended Questions To Math Concepts
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Starting Out Gently with Affective, Open-Ended Prompts
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Reflect on your participation in class today and complete the following statements:
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Describe how you feel about solving _________ problem.
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write a "mathography"-a paragraph or so
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keep students writing for the allotted time:
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keep their pencils moving.
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20 words per answer,
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Use a timer.
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Write about Familiar Mathematical Ideas
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- Explain in your own words what subtraction means.
- Explain what is most important to understand about fractions.
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student writing samples to help them refine their writing.
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metacognition to help students understand the reason and audience for their writing.
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More Advanced Math Concepts
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use drawings and graphs to explain their thinking
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write about their small group work.
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The purpose of this lesson is to help students begin to understand how to communicate their thinking.
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The purpose of this lesson is to help students refine their "thinking about thinking" by analyzing many different written responses to the same writing prompt.
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Writing Opportunities in Math Class
How and When to Use Journal Writing
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new material has been introduced.
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Explain in your own words the meaning of the term ____________."
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class looks disengaged or confused
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Write down two questions you have about the work you are doing/the lesson we're working on."
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When collaboration with fellow students is appropriate.
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When teaching the value of revising their work.
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pick a journal entry and revise it
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"Review the last three entries in your journal. Select one to revise." Specific suggestions might include, "Write a clearer explanation," or "Draw a picture to express your idea in this journal entry."
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Sample Journal Questions/Writing Prompts
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tudents respond best when the prompt is clear and can be approached in different ways.
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Pinpoint a confusing or easily misunderstood mathematical idea
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"Do 0.2 and 0.020 equal the same fraction? Explain your answer."
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Can be solved using different strategies
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"Allison's team won 8 out of 10 games. Jennifer's team won 15 out of 18 games. Whose team won a greater fraction of its games? Explain your answer."
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Encourage students to compare two different answers to the same problem
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Who is correct? The problem: Which fraction is biggest? 1/3 or 2/5?"
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Managing Math Journals: Helpful Tips
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Provide students with thin, inexpensive journals. College "blue books"
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Keep journals in class.
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decorate" their journals,
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system for identifying journal entries. Rather than having students take time to copy the writing prompt, have them number or date the entries.
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system for distributing and collecting journals each day
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timer for some journal assignments.
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Encouraging Students as They Write
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Be patient. It will take time
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understand how new and different this is f
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Provide feedback.
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Let students know you took time to read their journals.
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won't have time for in-depth comments on each journal for every assignment, so try other kinds of feedback, too:
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stars by sentences that helped you see their thinking.
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Clearly communicate to students the purpose of writing in math class.
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writing helps teachers to understand how students think.
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Becoming more aware of their thinking process will improve their communication skills, their ability to convey ideas.
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show students' thinking that they can look at and think about.
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Use students' writing samples to help them refine their writing.
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Mathography Prompts
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Madison HunterThis strand provides a developmental model for incorporating writing into a math class. The strand includes specific suggestions for managing journals, developing prompts for writing, and providing students with feedback on their writing. In addition, the site includes two sample lessons for introducing students to important ideas related to writing about their mathematical thinking.
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msburtonedol533Ideas for writing prompts in math class.
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Tricia VogelIdeas and examples of different ways to use writing in the math classroom. Journals and prompts.
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A MartinHow writing can be used in a mathematics class. Lessons that Web 2.0 GO can be linked with.
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Donalee StrandMore writing prompts for math
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This strand provides a developmental model for incorporating writing into a math class. The strand includes specific suggestions for managing journals, developing prompts for writing, and providing students with feedback on their writing. In addition, the site includes two sample lessons for introducing students to important ideas related to writing about their mathematical thinking.
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Janice RobertsonA good site for getting started in using writing in math. Also contains ideas for a mathography with some prompts to use at the start of the year.
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- Begin with affective, open-ended questions about students' feelings.
Teaching Strategies For Incorporating Writing Into Math Class: Moving From Open-Ended Questions To Math Concepts
Starting Out Gently with Affective, Open-Ended Prompts
Writing about thinking is challenging. For this reason, it's best not to start out having students write about unfamiliar mathematical ideas. First get them used to writing in a math class:
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Have students write a "mathography"-a paragraph or so in which they describe their feelings about and experiences in math, both in and out of school. (This is a good tool to get to know students early in the year, and to make comparisons later when looking for signs of progress.) (see Mathography Prompts)
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Eric SheningerA developmental model for incorporating writing into a math class. Includes specific suggestions for managing journals, developing prompts for writing, and providing students with feedback on their writing. In addition, the site includes two sample lessons for introducing students to important ideas related to writing about their mathematical thinking.
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bgreenstThis site has advice for journal writing in math class, including prompts and strategies.
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Mary HodgensHow to teach metacognition, and how thinking about thinking gets us to not worry about results, but how we get those results. When we understand HOW we got the result, our thinking becomes more clear
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Using Writing In Mathematics
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This strand provides a developmental model for incorporating writing into a math class. The strand includes specific suggestions for managing journals, developing prompts for writing, and providing students with feedback on their writing. In addition, the site includes two sample lessons for introducing students to important ideas related to writing about their mathematical thinking.
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- Begin with affective, open-ended questions about students' feelings.
- I learned that I...
- I was surprised that I...
- I noticed that I...
- I discovered that I...
- I was pleased that I...
Writing about thinking is challenging. For this reason, it's best not to start out having students write about unfamiliar mathematical ideas. First get them used to writing in a math class:
Sample Direction #1: Reflect on your participation in class today and complete the following statements:
Sample Direction #2: Describe how you feel about solving _________ problem.
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Have students write a "mathography"-a paragraph or so in which they describe their feelings about and experiences in math, both in and out of school. (This is a good tool to get to know students early in the year, and to make comparisons later when looking for signs of progress.
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Find ways to keep students writing for the allotted time:
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Getting Students to Write about Familiar Mathematical Ideas
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Once your students have become accustomed to writing about their attitudes and feelings toward mathematics in their journals, they are ready to write about simple, familiar math concepts. It is important not to make the writing too difficult by asking them to write about unfamiliar math ideas. Using writing to review familiar math ideas will increase confidence and skill in writing as well as revisit important math concepts.
Sample Directions:
- Explain in your own words what subtraction means.
- Explain what is most important to understand about fractions.
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Use student writing samples to help them refine their writing.
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Introduce the term metacognition to help students understand the reason and audience for their writing.
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- Research shows that using simple visual aids (diagrams, graphs, etc.) improves mathematical problem-solving ability, especially in female students.
- Ask the group to write a summary of how they reached a solution, including any "false starts" or "dead ends."
- Ask each individual to write an explanation of the group's work on a problem. Have the small groups discuss the individual explanations.
- After a small group assignment, have students "explain and illustrate two different approaches to solving a problem."
When you feel your students are ready, ask them to write about more complex mathematical ideas, including concepts being taught at their current grade level. To help you move your students into this more advanced level of writing about their thinking. Here are some other suggestions to help you:
1. Encourage your students to use drawings and graphs to explain their thinking.
2. As student writing progresses, ask students to write about their small group work.
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