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Monitoring Plans: Secondary Math

Planning Questions

Question Type Purpose
Assessing questions  Questions that ask students to explain their current thinking and provide teachers with an understanding of what students know and can do.  Examples include gathering information and probing questions.    Examples: 
  • What have you noticed so far? (Gathering Information)
  • What is the task asking you to figure out? (Probing)
  • What evidence do you have to support your answer? (Probing)
Advancing questions  Questions that use what students have learned to move students beyond their current thinking and extend their understanding beyond the current context. Examples include questions that make the math visible, probe, and encourage justification and reflection.    Examples:
  • What pattern do you notice? (Make the math visible)
  • Can you solve the task in a different way? (Probing)
  • What if I changed X, how would that altar the task or your solution? (Encourage justification and reflection)
  • What connections do you see between this task and X topic. (Encourage justification and reflection)