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Asking Questions That Make Students Think

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How can we ask questions that make students think rather than just remember?

Developing Questions that Prompt Thinking in Math

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Math is a particularly tricky subject for asking higher-level questions. Here are a couple of techniques I've used to prompt students to think, not merely calculate.

Creating Sequences of Questions

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High-level questions on their own simply aren't enough. We must create sequences of questions!

Running A “Notice, Wonder” Lesson

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Use these puzzling images to build a classroom culture that is comfortable with curiosity, ambiguity, and taking intellectual risks.

Who Asks The Questions? And Who Answers?

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What would the pie chart look like for these three situations: the teacher asks the students, a student asks the teacher, or a student asks another student a question? I can tell you my pie chart would have been very lopsided.

Updating Old Questions: Designing A Character’s Bedroom

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Fixing an under-developed (but interesting) task that was originally part of a choice menu.

Updating Old Questions: Identify Figurative Language

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So students can identify a simile, metaphor, and hyperbole. What next?

Improving Evaluative Questions

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How to improve questions at the "evaluate" level of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Updating Old Questions: Conflict and Character Change

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I update an old question about conflict and character change in the story Hatchet.

Updating Old Questions: Name That Genre

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How I'd improve a low-level question about a story's genre.

Updating Old Questions: Comparing Two Leaders

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How I'd upgrade a dull "which one is better" question.

Improving Wait Time

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How much time do students get to think? How much time do students need to think? How can we bring those into alignment?

Updating Old Questions: Pay Raise

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How I'd update a low-level, overly engaging math question.

Updating Old Questions: Volcano from Two Perspectives

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How I'd break down and rebuild a task about judging a volcano.

Updating Old Questions: A Mere Model of a Cell

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This task is all about the product, but completely ignores how students will think.