Math Must-Haves: Making Connections




Making Connections through Student Collaboration and Conversation

Making Connections through Student Collaboration and Conversation: Sustained peer interaction helps students clarify, justify, and borrow language and ideas, critical for developing both math content understanding and discipline-specific language.
Essential question to ask when evaluating instructional materials: What opportunities do students have to build and refine their mathematics ideas and language through clarifying, justifying, borrowing language/ideas from peers?
Making Connections through Student Collaboration and Conversation: Sustained peer interaction helps students clarify, justify, and borrow language and ideas, critical for developing both math content understanding and discipline-specific language.
Essential question to ask when evaluating instructional materials: What opportunities do students have to build and refine their mathematics ideas and language through clarifying, justifying, borrowing language/ideas from peers?