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Session 3 GVSU 0728/08

Analyzing and Working with


Student Thinking

Before you examine student work on the task, you are to solve the problem for yourself and then respond to the two
items below. Working on the task for yourself and thinking about the range of ways the problem can be solved will help
prepare you for examining and interpreting students’ responses.

o What is the mathematics in the task? How is the mathematics in this task connected to the GLECs?

o Identify several possible ways the task can be solved both by you and by students (correctly and incorrectly).

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Session 3 GVSU 0728/08

o Summarize the different ways in which the students worked on the task.

o What do the students seem to understand or know? What is the evidence?

o Are there any misconceptions?

o Which solutions would you have a conversation about and why, with your class?

o How might you use student strategies to frame your next instructional step? Why?

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