Reasoning-and-explanation - Session 3: Noticing the features of explanations and unpacking student reasoning
Part 3: Discussing the Three-Coin Problem explanations
Overview
This part focuses on sharing and evaluating approaches and solutions to the Three-Coin Problem. It includes opportunities to consider: the role of problem conditions; the ways in which explanations are convincing; and the ways in which explanations rely on the use of language, representations and logic.
Key Points
The norms and questions used in this part both support professional learning and model norms and questions to use in mathematics discussions with children.