Building Thinking Classrooms: 2 Quick & Easy Places to Start Lessons

[@HayesWorldofMath]

Another example of building lessons and what information I use to preload knowledge and what information I save for the boards. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n52cXqJ8pr6cb6c

[@slowoldoc]

great stuff. appreciate taking the time to share all this information. i have a question on groups? - how do you prevent the strongest person in math in each group doing all the work with very little discussion? how do you get the weakest person in each group to participate? thanks.

[@HayesWorldofMath]

I can't always prevent it but I do keep an eye on those kids who tend to do that. I've found with the writer being the kid who can't write anything that they aren't told, many of my weaker students strive to be that role so they didn't have to worry about being wrong. I also tend to remind the class to rotate after every problem. But making it just an assumed part that everybody's doing I have seen fewer kids holding on and just doing all the work.