Reply To: Lesson 7-3: Focusing On The Consolidation – Discussion

[Nicole Jackson]

You emphasized the importance of students being able to reason and justify their thinking. Then, strategically selecting representations of their thinking to reveal higher levels of understanding and skills. It’s a type of scaffolding, building upon the ideas and skills the students presently have access to.

In this context, it is so easy to see how simply having an answer–even if it is correct, just isn’t enough.

I intend to make more use of double number lines. Double number lines indicate scaling of composed units in a way that is very understandable.