Facilitation Questions to Develop Students’ Mathematical Thinking

The College and Career Readiness Standards outline eight mathematical practices we want to help adult learners develop.:

1. Make Sense of Problems and Persevere in Solving Them
2. Reason Abstractly and Quantitatively
3. Construct Viable Arguments and Critique the Reasoning of Others
4. Model with Mathematics
5. Use Appropriate Tools Strategically
6. Attend to Precision
7. Look for and Make Use of Structure
8. Look for and Express Regularity in Repeated Reasoning 

To support this, ABE Math teacher Lindsey Pust has put together a handout with facilitating questions that can be used to help learners develop in these areas. The handout also links to videos created by Minnesota Adult Education to help teachers and tutors better understand the practices and how to teach them.

The handout is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w_69yQFzrL7emyWTJipq0XTK0Lh0_YXY/view

Direct access to the videos is available here: https://atlasabe.org/resources/ccr-standards/ccrs-math-resources/ccrs-mathematical-practices/