Supporting Reasoning and Explanations

Session 1 Planner: Studying mathematics teaching with a focus on reasoning and explanations

The highlighted goals are focal in this session; others goals will be focal in other sessions.

Mathematics	Student thinking
making and justifying/refuting conjectures and generalizations recognizing and using multiple approaches to solve mathematics problems understanding features of a “good” explanation and producing “good” explanations identifying foundations of mathematical reasoning using and knowing the mathematical practices identified in the CCSS	monitoring students’ mathematical reasoning noticing collective elements of mathematical reasoning
Teaching practice	Learning from practice
supporting students’ engagement in mathematical practices by teaching them explicitly supporting students in explaining their mathematical reasoning establishing and maintaining an environment that emphasizes reasoning adapting tasks to nurture mathematical reasoning	using norms that support engagement in video workshop understanding the video workshop process learning to analyze teaching and learning in the context of video workshop