Essay On Math Observation

For this observation, I was asked to observe how the teacher utilizes questions during class lecturing. Math is a very difficult class to ask many high-level thinking questions. I believe this is due to the nature of mathematics. The students prior knowledge has a lot to do with it as well. First, if the student is unable to do basic arithmetic or simple math operations, much of the class is dominated with correcting these errors. I have noticed that this pulls away from having deep conversations and higher-level thinking during the class. Second, math problems and questions build to a larger objective. It often takes many small steps to find an answer. These smaller steps lead to little knowledge check opportunities for the teacher to do an

It is extremely difficult to always be asking the right questions. However, they have an inseparable bond with teaching. It is because of this that questions need to be planned and given some attention before teaching a lesson. To help me as a future teacher, I must design every lesson plan with a questions section. I have personally see how this improved my own lesson during student teacher. It helped me organizer my thoughts during the lesson and led to a great discussion. One thing that I plan to do is to try coming up with a central question or two for units. I learned about a central question in my content literacy class. A question such as this could be an opportunity to always have a higher-level question that could be interjected into a lesson. This would also invite a moment for students to perform writing tasks and see a bigger picture of mathematics. The Q-matrix is my favorite tools to use for question creation. It shows the importance of doing research and always try to improve based on additional information. As I have stated in this paper, it is hard to ask the right questions. Thus, one way to become better is to learn from others. In an age of massive amounts of information, there is no excuse to remain