In the chapter there are 4 challenges associated with anticipating student responses. What is the biggest challenge you are facing with anticipating student responses?

Challenges associated with the practice of anticipating students’ responses.

• Keeping the entire class engaged and accountable during individual presentations

• Ensuring key mathematical ideas are made public and remain the focus

• Making sure that you do not take over the discussion and do the explaining

• Running out of time

In the chapter there are 5 challenges associated with selecting and sequencing. What is the biggest challenge you are facing with selecting and sequencing student responses?

Challenges associated with the practice of anticipating students’ responses.

• Selecting only solutions that are most relevant to learning goals

• Expanding beyond the usual student presenters.

• Deciding what work to share when the majority of students were not able to solve the task and your initial goal no longer seems attainable.

• Moving forward when a key strategy is not produced by students.

• Determining how to sequence incorrect and/or incomplete solutions

In the chapter there are 3 challenges associated with anticipating student responses. What is the biggest challenge you are facing with anticipating student responses?

Challenges associated with the practice of monitoring.

• Trying to understand what students are thinking

• Keeping track of group progress - which groups you visited and what you left them to work on

• Involving all members of a group

In the chapter there are 3 challenges associated with anticipating student responses. What is the biggest challenge you are facing with anticipating student responses?

Challenges associated with the practice of anticipating students’ responses.

• Moving beyond the way you solve a problem

• Being prepared to help students who cannot get started on a task

• Creating questions that move students toward the mathematical goal

In chapter 2, there are 4 challenges associated with setting goals and selecting tasks.  What is a challenge you are facing with setting goals and selecting tasks.

• Identifying Learning Goals

• Identifying a doing-mathematics task

• Ensuring alignment between tasks and goals

• Launching a task to ensure student access.

What are you hoping to learn from reading this book?