Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Product Swap and Giveaway!









One of the best things about going to Vegas was getting to meet some of my blogging/TpT friends in real life!  We often collaborate and email each other and along the way become great friends.  One of the people that I got to meet this year in Vegas was Nichole who blogs at The Craft of Teaching.  You can find her store, The Craft of Teaching on TpT here.



While we were in Vegas we talked about a few of our products, and we decided to do a swap.  I tried out her Questions to Encourage Mathematical Thinking Posters, and she tried out my Math Journals for 5th grade.

Questions to Encourage Mathematical Thinking POSTERS

Math Journal - Fifth Grade Math Journal Prompts Aligned to


For this swap, I am blogging about her product, she is blogging about mine, AND you have the opportunity to win them both along with a $10 TpT card! 

Do you ever find yourself struggling to ask students just the right math questions to get them thinking WITHOUT giving them the answer or telling them how to solve it?  Nichole has solved that problem with her questions to encourage mathematical thinking product.


https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Questions-to-Encourage-Mathematical-Thinking-POSTERS-1974519


I absolutely love that she has included both the posters for the wall and the small task card size ones!



I have the posters hanging on the wall that I can point to while teaching lessons, and I keep a set with me as I conference with students and work in small groups.  I have also given them to my students to help them coach each other. 




After using them for a few weeks, I have been amazed at how my students have started automatically using these questions not only with each other, but also in their written and verbal responses.  They are now saying things like "I know my answer makes sense because.." or "I solved this problem a different way by ..."

 

If you would like to try out this product for yourself, you can find it here, or enter to win using the Rafflecoptor below.  We are selecting two winners! 




a Rafflecopter giveaway


1 comment:

  1. I love this. If I taught math, I could see tremendous value in my classroom. Even so, having a tool to help us see things differently can open us up to new ways of thinking.

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