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Teacher Response To Instances Of Student Thinking During Whole Class Discussion, Rachel Marie Bernard
Teacher Response To Instances Of Student Thinking During Whole Class Discussion, Rachel Marie Bernard
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While the use of student thinking to help build mathematical understandings in a classroom has been emphasized in best teaching practices, teachers still struggle with this practice and research still lacks a full understanding of how such learning can and should occur. To help understand this complex practice, I analyzed every instance of student thinking and every teacher response to that thinking during a high school geometry teacher's whole class discussion and used these codes as evidence of alignment or misalignment with principles of effective use of student mathematical thinking. I explored the teacher's practice both in small and large …