Category 1Questions that help students learn how to make learning math

meaningful.

Do you agree? Disagree with the correct answer?

Does anyone else use a different strategy to get the correct answer, explain it?

Category 2Questions that help students to become self-reliant and determine

whether something is mathematically correct.

Does that make sense? Tell me what makes this a reasonable solution to

the task?

Category 3Questions that help students learn to reason mathematically.

What have you tried that has worked or not worked? How could you explain this in your own words?

Category 4Questions that help students learn to solve problems.

What would happen if…? What would happen if not…? What pattern do you see, and how would you

explain your answer?

Category 5Questions that relate to helping students connect

mathematics, its ideas, and its applications.

Have we solved a problem that is similar to this one?

Can you write another problem like this one?