ABSTRACT
"The teacher's skillful questioning plays a vital role in the context, helping students to identify thinking processes, to see the connections between ideas and to build new understanding as they work their way to a solution that makes sense to them." A. Manouchehri & D. A. Lapp notes that in a general sense, teachers’ questions control students’ learning because they focus students’ attention on specific features of the concepts that they explore in class. In order to ask really good questions, teachers must have thought about the error patterns and misunderstandings that students have around the topic. The role of the teacher during the Daily Math Thinking Routines is to use a variety of questions to move through the routine. "Using questions and prompts to cause children to make sense of, reason about, predict from, solve and apply mathematics is a powerful teaching strategy and may be the key to fosterinq self-reliance and success."
