Reply To: Lesson 5-5: Question

[Stephanie Pritchett]

I have read the 5 Practices book and am familiar with the strategies. I’m most uncomfortable with knowing moves to anticipate, knowing how to recognize them in students work and knowing the order to present them on the fly. I think if I spend more time on the anticipation face I won’t be so worried about how to sequence and connect strategies. I feel that my students usually come up with the same simple strategies and very few new strategies are brought up. As we do this more and more, I can introduce one new strategy that relates to their thinking. I hope my students will get better at different models and ways of thinking.

[Stephanie Pritchett]

I have read the 5 Practices book and am familiar with the strategies. I’m most uncomfortable with knowing moves to anticipate, knowing how to recognize them in students work and knowing the order to present them on the fly. I think if I spend more time on the anticipation face I won’t be so worried about how to sequence and connect strategies. I feel that my students usually come up with the same simple strategies and very few new strategies are brought up. As we do this more and more, I can introduce one new strategy that relates to their thinking. I hope my students will get better at different models and ways of thinking.